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You may have heard about this one before, especially if you live in California. There is a new campaign in California that states it aims to make divorce illegal in California. The reasoning behind the initiative: Gay marriage has been banned with Prop 8 in California and a law protecting traditional marriage is a natural extension of Prop 8. Plus, the initiator claims the Bible hates divorce anyway and divorce has been illegal 99% of the time throughout the world’s history. Can such a proposition pass?
The campaign runs under the name 2010 California Marriage Protection Act and has received national news coverage over the past several weeks. The sheer outrageous claim to remove the possibility of legal divorce in California has made news media wonder whether the campaign founder, John Marcotte, who has been known to have pulled several social pranks, is really serious. In interviews, Marcotte indicated that he is serious. However, he often did not directly answer the question, stating that people do not understand when he is serious and when not.
If Marcotte can provide 694,354 signatures to support the initiative, Californians will see this voting option on their ballot:
2010 California Marriage Protection Act. ELIMINATES THE LAW ALLOWING MARRIED COUPLES TO DIVORCE. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the ability of married couples to get divorced in California. Preserves the ability of married couples to seek an annulment. 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.
It is unclear how many signatures Marcotte has as of now. But despite his popular campaign, the supporting funds raised through his website stand at only $1226 from 58 contributors.
Of course, an interested look at the published content on the campaign website can quickly tell you what his intentions are. T-shirts are marketed with the term “get one for yourself and get another one for the loved one that you can never, ever leave.” Another quote: “You said, ‘Til death do us part.’ You’re not dead yet.” You may start wondering and may even be smiling already. The giveaway about the campaign intentions may be an article that refers to George W. Bush as the nation’s “marriage counselor”. Quote:
“Was President George W. Bush’s presidency really the cataclysmic and unmitigated disaster that it seemed to be? Could his administration really have been as devoid of any basic competency, ethical standards or intellectual curiosity as it appeared? […]I think that history has proven that Bush was smarter than you would initially think based on his permanent, vapid, deer-in-the-headlights looks and inability to clearly articulate human thought. […] Bush was so committed to traditional values, that he was willing to run the entire country into the ground in order to protect the institution of marriage. God bless you, George W. Bush.”
And if you aren’t convinced yet, you can watch the first “public service announcement” in which a divorced woman talks about the “horrible sense of liberation she has to live with for the rest of her life.” Perhaps Marcotte just got frustrated that we actually would ask whether he is really serious about banning divorce. It may seem that Marcotte has just too much time on his hands and thoroughly enjoys these pranks. However, it is not really difficult to see Marcotte’s opinion on gay marriage, which may be his true motivation for this campaign. And in that view, he does a great job.
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