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It's just exhausting to see them saying this dumb as fuck bullshit and they stay in office term after term. The 14th Amendment is about crimes, not no-fault divorces.
Repubs love ignoring amendments unless they are able to make create sort of fiction that an amendment supports their claims. We have this dumb shit going on while at the same time they're trying to jam religious trash in the schools.
Beverly Willett, a writer and attorney, argues that unilateral no-fault divorce is also unconstitutional because it violates a person’s 14th amendment right to due process.
The defendant “has absolutely no recourse to say, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t want to be divorced, and I don’t think that there are grounds for divorce. I would like to be heard. I would like to call witnesses,’” said Willett, who experienced a divorce she didn’t want because she thought her marriage could be saved. “I believed in my vows” and “didn’t want to give up”.
What witnesses do you need other than the one person saying "I no longer love them and have no desire to put any more effort into making it work."
Conservatives really have no empathy don't they? "This is what I want so it doesn't matter what you want."
I think I know why they divorced you...
Are they going to start demanding witnesses before you can break up with someone you're dating too?
DATING!!!!???? You filthy hoarslaut, you should be burned at the stake. The females are to go straight from the ownership of their parents to their husband's bed at age 14, lest they become ugly 18 year old spinsters no honest Trump fearing man would want. The males are to work in the mines 20 hours a day and learn to hate women so they'll prefer to marry a little girl at age 40.
Ah Republicans when faced with the fact that they're shitty husbands and get divorced at higher rates than in the past, instead of looking inwards and trying to figure out why less people want to fuck and stay married to their shitty views, simply want to outlaw women and men to extricate themselves out of their shitty conservative marriage and force them to remain unhappy.
Spot on Republican family values.
funny how republican men just recently were whining that they can't find a date because of their political beliefs.
while pushing for shit like this. and they can't even see the dots, let alone connect them
The GOP is the party of increased infant mortality and high rates of spousal abuse, homicide, and suicide.
At least they are ideological consistent.
Republicans are some weakass snowflakes .
Of course they are. They hate it when their wives realize they married a total piece of shit and ditch them.
GOOD!
-Republicans apparently judging by the Primary Results.
I for one hope this simply leads to the end of marriage. That whole concept is built rather one sided. Time for relationship contracts... renewable, but always finite. With separation details worked out in advance. Let's get religion out of it entirely.
Some Republicans have said that they want to make it illegal to cohabitate without being married.
These shit birds are not going to rest until women have no autonomy.
Good luck to them on that... cause that is how you get a revolution. Lol
If ignoring election results isn't going to do it then this definitely won't.
They are chipping away with our any revolts so you know I doubt they think we will do anything .
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained
They literally don't give a shit what we think unless we are donating massive amounts of money. We don't live in a democracy anymore
Why does it need to be a formal contract? People can engage in relationships without the law being involved. I tend to think we should disentangle marriage and law, have some paperwork one can fill out for the legal affairs like hospital visitation and such that can be changed without the same degree of court proceeding, and have the religious or cultural ritual as just a ritual people can but are not obligated to hold if they feel like with no legal meaning to it.
I think you just redefined a marriage. The function of marriage legally is all those "legal affairs".
Well it doesn't have to be a formal contract... but I was thinking there would be like a website with a selection you could pick from, print out, sign and done. And the main reason was to make getting out of a bad relationship clear easy, and most likely no courts involved since everything was already spelled out. Open sourced contracts would in theory be well vetted to be fair.
...“It’s very difficult to get evidence to show abuse of children."
Ain't that the truth.