For people like Morgan, however, no-fault divorce has stripped him of what he views as a constitutional right to protest the dissolution.

He told Chron his views were shaped by watching his father go through a divorce and later experiencing divorce himself, one he did not want.

"When we utter our vows, many people say, 'Till death do you part.'....My vows are more important than anything… I made this vow to God, and my wife was the beneficiary of my vow," Morgan argued.

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[–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't understand this. This seems to be based on religion. The bible doesn't say god is for your one lifetime, it says forever and ever, or something like that. So they they are saying that marriage is for a lifetime? But God grants eternal life. Supposedly. Perhaps the "lifelong" commitment is in fact an admission that they don't believe in their religion? Because if marriage is limited to one lifetime, it is essentially a contract, not a religious observance.

I have to be careful about trying to analyze the absurdities of religion too carefully, it will literally drive a person insane with its logical inconsistencies.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    It's not about religion. It's abusing religion to exert control maliciously. They don't want their wives to have agency to just walk out the door and file for divorce. They want to force that legal relationship on the woman until the man agrees to sever it. They don't care that frequency of suicides and spousal murder went down after no-fault divorce became a thing. They don't want to have to be a good enough husband for their wife to want to stay their wife.

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