WSJ: Democracy loses if Prop. 8 is overturned.

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The Ghost of RubangB said:
The reason the divorce rate wasn't always this high was because women weren't allowed to get divorces. The divorce rate increased when we decided that it was sexist and unfair to allow men to dump their wives whenever they felt like it, but not allow women the same freedom. So when you blame the divorce rate's increase on some social movement that you don't like, would you prefer that divorces were illegal or at least much harder to get?

What is the sanctity of marriage when people like Britney Spears can get a joke marriage as long as she's straight and gay people can't get a serious marriage that will last more than one weekend?

So if the problem was sexism, why didn't we just go the other way and say guys couldn't get divorced either? Personally, yes, I would prefer if it were more difficult to get a divorce. maybe people would be a little more cautious abotu getting married in the first place then.

you think I somehow approve of brittany spears? She's an entirely seperate problem. Just because a bunch of pigeons have shit over my car doesn't mean I don't have a right to chase off any more pigeons that come by while I'm trying to clean my car off.

@Rath - I agree about the femenist movement issue, not that I don't think women should have equal rights, but that it was handled the entirely wrong way. Men could act like assholes in a relationship and women couldn't, but rather than push for laws that restricted men from being assholes teh same as women, they just said "hey, we wanna be assholes too!"

and what do you think the purpose of a law is? It's a guideline for the proper functioning of a society, which is comprised of morality, which is the guidelines for an individual to function in a society. You can't say that one has nothing to do with the other.

Also, I don't assume that aethiest have no morals, but you seem to think that the morals of a religious person are only based on fear and are somehow invalidated by this erroneous assumption.