By God, it's about time someone got serious about defending marriage and protecting our children!
Concerned Christian and Happily Married Heterosexual John Marcotte's 2010 California Marriage Protection Act has gained the approval of the Secretary of State's office to gather signatures in order to be placed on the ballot.
Finally, we can finish the REAL work that Proposition 8 was too half-assed to do:
Protect marriage by outlawing divorce.
Marcotte sums it up quite nicely:
Prop 8 only attacked the problem from the edges. I’m going after the heart of the matter. That’s why I drafted the 2010 California Protection of Marriage Act to ban divorce in the state of California. If you can’t get divorced, you can’t destroy traditional marriage.
Previous generations had it right. It’s better to stay together in a soul-sucking sham of a marriage, filled with icy silence punctuated with passive-aggressive hostilities than to admit you might have made a mistake.
Some more cogent, unarguable tidbits from the website:
It’s your responsibility to teach your child about reality — not the state’s.
Sure, divorces happen — but they don’t need to know that . . .
I’m Catholic. My faith teaches me that divorce is a sin. I don’t believe that the government should be indoctrinating our children — telling them that divorce is "cool" or "legally permissible." That type of moral decision should be taught within the confines of the family. It is not the government’s job to teach our children what to think about the morality of divorce.
When my child read that Ronald Reagan had gotten a divorce in his history textbook, he cried for a week. Shame on you, public school system! It’s a parent’s responsibility to teach their child about reality — not the state’s.
Jesus still loves you if you get divorced — just not as much as before . . .
As I walk down the street, often people ask me, "John, how can I avoid the hell-fire and torment of eternal damnation?" When it comes to marriage the answer is simple: Never get divorced. Ever.
Jesus says getting divorced is a sin:
Mark 10:9-11
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this.
11 He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.
Interestingly, Jesus never once even mentioned homosexuals or homosexual behavior. I assume this was some sort of clerical oversight that will be rectified during the end of days as described in the Book of Revelation. Perhaps during Satan’s 1,000 year reign. I’ll get back to you on that one.
The announcement last week (PDF file) from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's office points out that Marcotte has until March 22, 2010 to collect the signatures of 694,354 registered voters in order to qualify for the ballot. (If you'd like to help him in his Defense of Marriage, you can donate here.)
And - no doubt to the great delight of those who combine both kinds of conservatism, country and western fiscal and social, the release from the Secretary of State's office includes this very welcome news (emphasis added):
Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Savings to the state of up to hundreds of millions of dollars annually for support of the court system due to the elimination of divorce proceedings.
What's not to love?
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