John Marcotte, a California man with a history of pulling social pranks, is collecting signatures to get the "California Protection of Marriage Act," which would ban divorce, on the ballot.Marcotte calls his voter initiative "the logical extension of Proposition 8," the controversial measure which last year added "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," to the state's constitution.
Marcotte has tongue firmly in cheek -- his Web site is subtitled, "Safeguarding marriage from the evils of divorce," and supporters can buy a T-shirt of a chained-together bride and groom reading "You said, 'Til death do us part.' You're not dead yet."
But his point is valid -- since many of Prop 8 supporters cited defending traditional marriage as their reason for pushing for the gay marriage ban, shouldn't they also be supportive of the "California Protection of Marriage Act," which eliminates the greatest threat to marriage that exists?
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Monday 14 September
By Heavytoka
People take marriage to lightly now a day anyways, most people end up divorced within a year or marriage.
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Monday 14 September
By BB
I am all for this bill. Marry at will...your stuck with it forever,
Can't pick and chose Gods laws.
I however, am glad there was no law 35 years ago.
Tuesday 15 September
By Sabrina
Marriage isn't taken too lightly. Divorce is not easy enough. Women realize now days they don't need a man, they don't need to put up with the garbage. Marriage was invented for control. Women have always been treated as property like the livestock, and it is still like that in too many places in this world.
Monday 14 September
By Anonymous W
Yeah, it would cause people to think long and hard about getting married, and if this happed, the people who did get married wouldn't even want to get divorced, it's a great idea!
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Monday 14 September
By bill
I think it's a great idea!!! If the bigots were only defending the sanctity of marriage, then this should be right up their alley. I hope this goes through and exposes the self righteous gay haters for what they are!!!
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Monday 14 September
By Bill
What is the point anyway. Domestic partnerships because of the law, the only way to go. Marriage is an institution created by religions. The church has no business interfering with laws that affect your taxes. Who said you cant get divorced, I think that's a catholic thing. Who said same sex can't have a domestic partnership. People need to get over trying to make other live within their means, spiritually. Abolish marriage all around. Is it really necessary.
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Monday 14 September
By brittany
Marriage wasn't created by the religious. Marriage dates back to the Mesopotamian period. The purpose for it at first was to assure the male the paternity of his children. Then it was for money and property, then and now for love. I don't know why religions claim it as their thing and try to control how the world does it whether the couple is religious or not.
Monday 14 September
By uh
you say it wasn't a religious thing, but the united states' definition of marriage is a very christian thing.
mormons can have multiple spouses, and there are different rules regarding marriage in a lot of different religions; why is it then that the united states' laws so obviously reflect the traditional judeo-christian definition?
Tuesday 15 September
By Ron
Marriage is not a religious thing. In the US one can get married by a justice of the peace. These people are not religious clerics. Nothing is stopping people from getting married with or without the interference of any religion. Hell I am presbyterian and married 36 years to a catholic. Had the wedding in a presbyterian church only because it had a pipe organ and had a presbyterian minister and catholic priest officiate. Only religious zealots would let religious beliefs interfere with something like this.
Tuesday 15 September
By Sarah
I think the idea is totally and completely ludicrous. First off, there are those of us with KARMA that have to learn that its the CHURCH who says that our all knowing and loving god says we MUST suffer and keep getting cheated on and knocked through walls and get sent to the emmergency room. If he's all knowing and all loving, wouldn't he have known you'd make a mistake before your immature mind figures it out for your self? How are you suposed to become old and wiser if your not ALOUD to grown from your mistakes?
Stupid Idea! Its a control issue all the way. Any oen who says that has never been in a bad spot before, or they have and they like the power theyhold over the feeble minded. I met a woman who was literally running for her life! She was going to Texas becasue she was seriously afraid that her man was going to kill her in her sleep! This clown needs to get a clue!
Tuesday 15 September
By Lynnia
Guys if marraige wasn't a religious thing then why are people saying Homosexuals can't marry? If it wasn't religious they'd have every right to because it envokes no law breaking what so ever. Every person I saw who supported prop 8 was a religious bigot.
Marriage is a religious ceremony, one that is marred by stupidity and bigotry. I would LOVE to get married some day, but I refuse to do so untill my gay/lesbian friends and teachers can do so too. Because THEN and only then, does it show a TRUE seperation of Law and Religion.
Americans are bound by a judeo-christian society, that means EVERYONE, aethiest or not. God is fine if you're into him, but things like the religious institute of marriage must be looked at carefully.
Monday 14 September
By nickknight74
What a bunch of bullsh$t!!! Hell will freeze over before I would stay married to someone I did not want to stay married to. Well, what do you expect on AOL: it is a magnet for right wing nutjobs!
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Monday 14 September
By kilnntime
Actually this is a left wing nut job, he is trying to give a reason why gays should be allowed to marry in a backwards rediculous arguement of if they are trying to protect marriage with proposition 8 then they need to make it against the law to get divorced. Saying that divorce is a bigger threat to marriage then gays getting married is. The thing is most people could care less if gays have the same rights as married people , the problem is marriage is a biblical thing between a man and woman and if gays would just call it anything else I think they could further their agenda of making it a legal binding union and no one would give a care.
Monday 14 September
By Pasdequoi
You missed the point--it's an attempt to get people to realize how two-faced some people can be about a particular issue. This was actually 'on your side' rather than on the conservative side.
Monday 14 September
By Joyce
AOL is catering to right wing nut jobs? Where did you get THAT idea. I thought it was the left who's for gay marriage.
Tuesday 15 September
By dennis
I agree,I only got married because it was the only way to get my ghildrne Health Insurance.This world is being taken over by the "Elites". We,the middle working class must take back OUR country.
Monday 14 September
By Randy
Heavytoka actually 72% of all people that are married stay married thats from the census bureau
Bill According to the old testament, God intended for us to married till death but in Leviticus he allowed divorce out of the hardness of our hearts. In other words he knew women in that era would suffer alot more if divorce was not allowed.
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Monday 14 September
By John
Randy, you are wrong! Divorce rates in the US have been around 50% for almost 10 years now. So quit putting out obviously FALSE information!
Saturday 19 September
By Elaine
It was Moses that granted divorce because of the
hardness of your hearts,,but God said it was not so from the begining,God said let not man put assunder
what God has joined together,he meant marriage
to be till death do you part, but just like
the rest of God,s word ,no one listen,s today
but one day they will wish they had,
been married to the same one for 47years
Monday 14 September
By c
When you date, you leave when you are unhappy. When you are married you don't because you would prefer to work on your committment and put your family and kids over your own "needs."
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