Everything old is new again

[Lanya]

Foundation Wants Stricter Rules for Splits

By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 5, 2007; B03

RICHMOND, Jan. 4 -- After its victory in last year's fight over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Virginia, the Family Foundation of Virginia announced Thursday that it will push to change the state's divorce laws to make it more difficult for parents to end their marriage.

The Family Foundation, which opposes abortion and promotes socially conservative values, said it will lobby the General Assembly this year to amend the state's long-standing no-fault divorce law, which essentially allows a husband or wife to terminate a marriage without cause.

The foundation is advocating "mutual consent divorce" for couples with children, which would require a husband and wife to agree to divorce before a marriage can be legally terminated, except in certain instances, such as abuse or cruelty. The proposed legislation would not affect childless couples.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010401910_pf.html

Sigh....

[Xavier_Onassis]

It must be a well-known fact in Conservative circles that a couple will tend to LIKE one another more if the state makes it harder for them to get a divorce...


Whatever happened to the two-tier marriage bill, wherein one could marry in the normal way, and bail out rather easily, and the "for keepsies" marriage, from whom there was no escape (having been made more Godly by action of the State)?