Now TX repukes want to repeal no-fault divorce in the state.

[Bouncy Ball]

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/13125773.htm

A note from me. As it is, in order to pursue no-fault divorce in Texas, you have to be legally separated for three years. It's not exactly easy to do in the first place. :eyes: They'll also push for the very ominous-sounding "covenant marriage."

Why do I keep wanting to tell repukes to mind their own backyard? The state repukey representative I had where I used to live was caught in a capitol building supply room having sex with his 23 year old girlfriend. He was STILL MARRIED and later moved in with said girlfriend while NOT pursuing a divorce with his wife. Then during the 2004 campaign, he and his wife agreed to "pretend" for the campaign--no telling how much he paid her for that--and now they are divorced. You tell ME who needs to mind their personal life. And read this article--the guy is actually surprised the divorce rate in TX is higher than in NY. GEEZ, get a clue.

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Texas social conservatives want to translate their resounding victory on a gay marriage ban into broader results: reducing the state's divorce rate and passing a nationwide amendment to prevent same-sex unions.

Rep. Warren Chisum, who authored the amendment endorsed by Texas voters by a ratio of more than 3-to-1, said Wednesday that it's too easy for spouses to split up. The state should consider repealing or modifying its no-fault divorce law, the Pampa Republican said.

"Gee whiz, our divorce rate's higher than New York," Chisum said. He proposed that between now and their next regular session in 2007, lawmakers study ways "to make marriage thrive more in our state."

Meanwhile, leaders of the pro-amendment campaign said Tuesday's vote should add momentum to the drive to have Congress pass a federal constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.

[flowomo]

1. but everybody in Texas is ALREADY divorced!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4278517&mesg_id=4278517

[qnr]

6. But that's good, since everyone knows that the #1 cause of divorce

is marriage.

[Inland]

18. "Protecting the Sanctity of the Second Family"

Well, then the NEXT divorce will be more difficult.

[Gman]

2. With a GOP controlled leggy, it'll never get out of committee

every damn one of them has way too much to lose.

[Bouncy Ball]

3. ROFL!!! Good point, touche! nt

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Sharia law anyone?

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Huh, indeed.

[unblock]

5. like most divorcees, i blame the failure of my 1st marriage on lax laws.

oh sure, some give lip service to cheating or money problems or divergent life interests or irreconcilable differences but we all know the real reason most people get divorced is because liberal laws make divorce easy and fun for the whole family!

:sarcasm:

[WestHoustonDem]

8. The failure of my marriage was

Bill Clinton's fault. That and the gay agenda. The fact that my ex was a worthless son of a bitch who couldn't keep a job or tell the truth had nothing to do with it.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. THE GAY MAFIA!!!!

lol

[FreedomAngel82]

33. You forgot

the Jews. :eyes: Can't have some blame without them eh? Oy!

[AspenRose]

35. FEAR THE ALL POWERFUL CLENIS!

Sheesh :eyes:

There are too many serial monogamists in the GOP (Rush Limbaugh, anyone?) that this will be cutting it way too close for comfort.....

[NanceGreggs]

7. And what, pray tell ...

... do all of the twice- and thrice-married Texas republicans have to say about this?

[Bouncy Ball]

13. LOL, not a hell of a lot.

The guy who proposed it is probably the only repuke in Austin who's only been married once and never divorced.

[Lithos]

10. I thought they wanted guvment out of our lives?

Sheesh... morans...

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Well, there's what they say and there's what they do.

And with repukes, it's rarely ever the same thing.

HYPOCRITES.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. Nah

Just preaching to us.

[johncoby2]

12. Who is the repug who was cheating?

Senator Staples?

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Check your PM.

[skids]

16. Something tells me...

TX social conservatives are about to discover just how many serial monogamists there are in the Republican party. And they won't like the results.

[depakid]

17. Screw it- It's Texas

If the majority there wants to continue to go off of the deep end- let them. They're making a real paradise for themselves down there- and it's going to be real purdy in 20 years or so.

I'm more interested in getting AND keeping Texans and their destructive delusions out of other, more sensible states- and of course- away from ANY leadership positions in the Federal government.

[Bouncy Ball]

19. Well it only took 17 posts to get to one like this.

I guess that's good.

:shrug:

I'm in Texas. How about saying you want to keep repuke Texans out of other states and leadership positions in the federal government? I'd be cool with that, in fact, I work for that.

But liberal Texans like myself, well I'm glad we're here. They can't HAVE my home.

[depakid]

26. Sorry, but I'm still pissed at Dick Army & Shrub, et al

for coming into my state with their money, influence and ideas- and trashing what a lot of us spent the better part of our lives trying to put together.

I can't be responsible for Texans- and I feel for you, but a week doesn't go by where I don't hear of some lunacy going on down there, so you'll have to forgive me if I think the state is pretty well hopeless.

[Vogon_Glory]

23. Texas Isn't The Only Laboratory For Bad Ideas

As much as I admire Molly Ivins, I must disagree with her assessment of the Texas Legislature as being the National Laboratory for Bad Ideas. At least one Virginia state legislator wants to make every miscarriage to be grounds for investigation of homicide, and an Indiana legislator tried to introduce a bill prohibiting single parents or lesbian couples from undergoing in-vitro fertilization. Apparently the National Organization For Bad Ideas is outsourcing its work.

[NoPasaran]

24. So many bad ideas... so little time!

And the Texas Lege only meets every other year.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. Weird, isn't it?

Hubby didn't believe me when I said the Lege was only in session every 2 years. We went to Austin and I took him to the capitol bldg and he asked "where is everybody." Said they were home, just stirring up mischief locally. Now they seem to do double time trouble-wise in Austin in the odd years.

[NoPasaran]

30. 140 days every two years

Although some have suggested the state would be better off if it was two days every 140 years...

[Bouncy Ball]

37. Hear, hear. I like that.

Unless it's a Dem-controlled lege, of course. :-) In that case, they'd have a lot of mess cleaning up to do.

[depakid]

27. There's a reason the pharmcuetical companies chose Texas

for their mechinations into the mental health arena. It's because of the level of corruption- and the profound lack of common sense among the various institutions there- including the legislature.

Your state now the name for one of the most corrupt processes to come out of American medicine in- I'd say at least 20 years...

It's called TMAP.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/medicating_aliah.html

http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf

[Bouncy Ball]

36. The guy who wanted every miscarriage to be grounds for a

homicide investigation quickly changed his tune when lots of women wrote to him, offering to send him their used sanitary products each month so that he could personally inspect them.

He dropped the idea quickly, as you can imagine.

[Vogon_Glory]

39. I Wouldn't Put It Past The Repugs And Holy Joes To Try Again n/t

[seabeyond]

20. lets lets. i want to do it. (i am in a pretty damn secure marriage)

first. but second, when i moved her i took all the women in the office and the number of marriage, added and divided. now i was single and we had one other gal that had never been married and i shit you not, 2.5 marriages per person. bah hahhahha. the people here in texas has a mate all set and ready before they even get their divorce.

my kids went to a fundy private school for 6 years. i was flabbergasted the number of marrriages for these good christian people

lets. if we are going after the gay, then per paul and leviticus, we have to even more strongly go after divorce

lets do it

[bullwinkle428]

21. Maybe not such a bad thing - as I see it, this might just drive enough of

the hypocritical fundies out of the state to give it a chance to turn blue in the not-too-distant future! :woohoo:

[seabeyond]

22. might make them think twice about making church law an absolute

for all to follow

[drhilarius]

25. Yep, that's the party of limited government...

using the law to force you to stay in a marriage you're unhappy with.

[NuttyFluffers]

28. good! i'll go ready the popcorn, who brings the beer?

i can't wait to see some riots and lynchings at the texas legislature of the lawmakers who usher this forward.

:popcorn:

i'll even travel there and ready the torches and pitchforks to hand out as party favors.

[Lexingtonian]

31. I'm for it

on the condition that people marrying in Texas be issued a handgun each with six rounds of ammunition along with their marriage certificate.

Divorce in Texas will be replaced by a duel at ten paces for custody of the children.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. They do need to get out of people's lives

Here in Tn earlier this year they had some "Marriage Amendment Act" to help make it a lil harder to get a divorce and the main guy who was involved with sponsering the amendment was a republican guy and the day it passed he himself was getting a divorce! He had an affair with his aide who was younger than he was (in her twenties). His wife was interviewed and it was put on a local website and she said that gay people weren't destroying marriages it was divorce and adultery and all that.

[deadparrot]

38. Yeah, because no Texas legislator was ever married more than once.

:eyes: