I'm so very happy that Ohio voters chose to preserve the sanctity of marriage by voting for Issue 1. We've already upheld moral values by banning gay marriage and now we're denying rights to domestic partners. As our President has so eloquently stated, For the record, John Kerry agrees with President Bush ("The president and I share the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. I believe that. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman.")

So, my proposal is, in order to further preserve the sanctity of marriage and uphold moral values, the United States of America should make divorce illegal. Divorces rip away at the moral values by which we live by. It's a sacred union between man and woman "until death do us part."

Anybody with me?

I had to internally rant and fume about this, and sort out my thoughts to prevent myself from spouting off anti-christian rhetoric and posting some giant Baphomet picture with FUCK YOU written across it. Now I am calmer.

How about this, creating a separation between "marriage" and "civil unions" is the very heart of the problem. The fact that literalist Christianity has so permeated our society and government to make it so we can't have one thing, "Marriage", and then if you choose to opt into a set of rules that come with whatever religion or set of moral values you choose to obey, this is COMPLETELY FUCKED.

The fact that we would have to say, "Well, you're gay, not christian, or don't fit into whatever mold the majority has agreed upon, therefore your union isn't really Marriage." is BULLSHIT.

I don't give a fuck if the majority of the population is Christian. Just because it might be a majority doesn't make it "right".
If we live in the goddamn "land of the free", people who are born gay, yep BORN gay, should be able to live like everybody else. Who are they harming? Whose goddamn toes are they stepping on if they want to live in a committed relationship and get the same benefits as a couple who happen to be of different sexes?

See? Calmer.

I'm all for the idea of a civil union. I think "marriage" should be strictly a religious thing, and the state shouldn't be involved in it at all.

As to divorce: I don't think it should be harder for people to get divorced (relationships can break down without cheating or other heinous actions), I just think it should be waaay harder for people to get married (or civil union-ed, whatever).

The right to divorce was one of the central tenets of the Women's Suffrage Movement, along with the right to vote, intricately linked to the right of women to own property, and to retain that property after marriage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for the liberalization of divorce laws, not to destroy the institution of marriage, but to ensure that it was a happy estate between equal partners.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was happily married and the mother of seven children. She did not live to see the passage of the 19th Amendment.