More than 160,000 people plan to throw a massive party the day a Christian couple files for divorce if Australia adopts marriage equality later this year.
Last week, Nick Jensen and his wife Sarah announced their plans to dissolve their 10 year union if gays are allowed to get married Down Under.
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“Our view is that marriage is a fundamental order of creation. Part of God’s intimate story for human history,” Nick Jensen wrote in a very poorly-received op-ed published by the Canberra CityNews. “By changing the definition of marriage, ‘marriage’ will, in years to come, have an altogether different sense and purpose. We no longer wish to be associated with this new definition.”
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Now, a Facebook event page has been created celebrating the Jensen’s impending divorce.
The party is being hosted by one Jesse Mount, who writes: “I invite everyone who supports marriage equality to come celebrate the DIVORCE of Nick & Sarah Jensen!”
“They have decided that being married together in a country where it’s legal for a man and a man to marry, or a woman and a woman, is just too horrible,” the invitation continues. “They’d much rather be divorced and I think we should all support and celebrate in their decision when the date finally does come.”
This is a good time to remember the opposite couples actually took a very different and positive stand, refusing to marry until their LGBT friends and family were allowed the same rights and responsibilities under the law.
So far, nearly 165,000 people have RSVP’d to the celebration, which is tentatively scheduled for September 1. That’s only a placeholder, however, until the legislation actually goes through.
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen, if you’re reading, please let us know where we should send flowers.
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h/t: PinkNewsUK
Sidney Davies
LMFAO
sfbeast
I don’t think divorce is a strong enough statement. I suggest self-immolation.
polarisfashion
How much do you want to bet they actually don’t go through with getting their divorce?
1EqualityUSA
Now he can go to the bars.
Stephen Meeks
Speaking of destroying the sanctity of marriage, their’s must not mean too much to them if divorce is so easily considered.
Sam Oropeza
Start the divorce paperwork then!
Carlos Zuniga
He’s probably secretly gay and this is his wAy out of the marriage so he can get with the Filipino boy two doors down.
José Ramón Chavira
Lol
James Sigmon
Old news move on
maxdadmark
@sfbeast: I think these two sanctimonious assholes would prefer crucifixion.
George Lovell
Doesn’t God kind of frown upon divorce?
NateOcean
More time for him to work the glory holes while he fondles his cross.
Ricardo Azambuja
That’s so stupid!
Ahearn Amo
idiots
Jaime Enrique Sibauste
Closeted gays looking for a way out of their Chistian heterosexual marriage! Lol..
Jamie Hincks
I hope they do get divorced, we don’t want Rosemary to have a baby! ð??¿ So sick of these sanctimonious zealots.
Jonathan Isaac Valentine
Publicity for the sake of publicity. Nothing will be accomplished here but button pushing and a whole lot of faceplaming.
Paul McDonnell
160,000 Aussies with lives as empty as their heads.
DDstar1me
Ok Jensen’s. Just 15 mins ok? No more than that. Just 15.
Robert Paige
Looks that that closet wasnt big enough for all those heels lmao
OhHellNo
They can divorce all they want to, but I refuse to bake their divorce cake.
Celtic
Quote, “marriage is a fundamental order of creation.” End quote. No, actually marriage is not a fundamental order of creation. Perhaps if this nitwits would do some research in place of opinionating through their lower orifice, they would realize how absurd their position is.
Precreation is a fundamental order of creation in order to perpetuate the species (like we don’t have enough humans already?). Marriage originated as a contract: for safety and protection of wealth and property; to subordinate the woman to the man; to secure a dowry from the woman; to assure responsible parties for progeny so that progeny would not be orphaned onto society.
ALSO, in the early periods of marriage the wife was selected for the husband by the husband’s parents. It had ZERO to with dating or love. Get off your damned high horse and stop spewing out lies and misinformation simply to gird up your own hatred and intolerance. Your stupidity is showing like the bare assed buffoons you are.
sanfranca1
@Carlos Zuniga: Good one!
Jose Irwin
Hope they divorce before they breed more wicked, unhappy, and miserable morons to this happy world.
David Runyan
So will they still be a couple and live in sin after committing the sin of divorce to prove how Christian they are?
Keith Whitehead
You have got to be fucking kidding me!!!! Idiots everywhere!!
1EqualityUSA
When they realize how many rights and privies they lose doing this, maybe it will teach them how unfair it is that these rights are being withheld from LGBT. He looks gay to me, so…hey. The wife scowls and smiles ate the same time. Conflicted.
Johnathan-Perry O'Brien
Just seems like an excuse to divorce
Terry Paape
talk about colossal back fire
Jo-anne Sokolik
H A H !
Preston Brooks
I’d go and celebrate their stupidity.
Sameer Nurani
So many people are waiting for them to split. It says a lot about their marriage! I am just saying!
esemple
Stupid talk. What are their legal grounds for a divorce?
Jamie Bensson
What a pair of utter twats!! Doesn’t their marriage mean anything to them?!
Tony Lee Churchill
Yawn…
John
Is this so he can then marry his boyfriend or she can marry her girlfriend?
Donna Clark-Bianchi
WTF is the big deal??? I’d celebrate their divorce toooooo!!!!
Tracy Johnson
Lol
Redpalacebulleaglesox
I’m going out to the liquor store and buying some champagne to celebrate these two support marriage by ending theirs.
jason smeds
Australia has some strange people in it.
Mark David Snyder
NoCagada
@1EqualityUSA: Since he’s probably been hiding at the baths
NoCagada
@maxdadmark: I’ll do the first nail
Major D. Easthagen III
And who cares?
Bob Buck
How does this even make sense? Is this internet BS?
jwtraveler
@sfbeast: Excellent suggestion! (extra points for spelling)
Jonny B. Mitchell
Lol
Jimmy Daniel Nava
Me too
silveroracle
@Celtic. Good points.
martinbakman
@maxdadmark: @sfbeast: …unless they were Moslem, then he’d have to lop her head off.
gaym50ish
Was marriage “a fundamental order of creation” when Abraham, Solomon and other biblical prophets had multiple wives and concubines? Was it so when Abraham married his half-sister Sarah? Was it a fundamental order of creation when marriages were arranged and men took child brides? Was it fundamental when the Zande people of southwestern Sudan bonded with their “boy-wives”?
The fact is, marriage is a societal creation, not something handed down from God. And governments decided to register marriages as legal entitites so that paternity and inheritance would be firmly established. Today, the ONLY thing that is changing is what marriages the world’s governments will recognize.
Denise Du Jardin Thomas
They are wanting their own reality show. They have a crappy marriage so this is their way to end it. He is probably cheating on her or her on him.
Redpalacebulleaglesox
@Celtic: Absolutely correct. Since it also qualifies as a “public trust” since you need a license from the government to do it, marriage falls under Article VI of the US Constitution, 3rd paragraph, 2nd clause, “but, no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for an office or public trust under the United States.”
Celtic
Thank you for your comments. While a marriage certificate is not required for a religious ceremony or even a civil ceremony, the marriage is not validated until it is registered with a local government. That is a passive revenue action, although it is necessary for future affairs of an estate. My irritation with this Australian couple is the mockery they make of a ceremony that many consider to be sacred. I see their action as a mere gimmick to garner attention to them. What a waste of time!
1EqualityUSA
Christ spoke against divorce, but no words about being born with identities that are not heterosexual.
Celtic
In Matthew 19, Jesus speaks about “those who are born as eunuchs from their mother’s womb” AND “not all men are called to marry”. So, your point is?
mezzacanadese
What do you suppose they think they’ll prove by getting a divorce? And who the heck cars if they do?