One man is trying to make this a reality. It doesn't really matter whether or not one California man's effort to get a divorce ban voted on as an amendment next year is a farce or the result of a sincere desire to protect marriage. Attacking divorce reveals the flaws in Prop 8 while also showing how frail marriage is in our culture.
What if you couldn't get divorced? What if divorce had the same stigma that it had years before? I think of Mad Men's episode where Betty found out that getting a divorce wasn't so easy, a striking comparison to nuptial realities. Is it that no one should get married without vowing to uphold its sanctity, gay or straight?
Or, if there was no divorce, would gays really want the opportunity to get married? Bill Maher has argued that he is for gay rights but against gay marriage because he is against all marriage. Can we support marriage while still supporting divorce?
This one man's crusade brings up a lot of questions. Ban Divorce? Who would have thought....
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