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Post by amydockter on May 6, 2014 17:58:29 GMT -6
I just read an article in The Advocate about a MO lesbian couple who had married in MA being granted the state's first same-sex divorce although MO neither sanctions same-sex marriage nor recognizes such marriages performed in other states. This makes me feel completely SCHIZOID! The judge said that there is a "loophole" that allows individual judges to recognize protections granted in other states for certain purposes. This is progress, uh, right?
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Post by Matt Stout on May 6, 2014 18:04:01 GMT -6
Same-sex divorce? Seriously? Ugh, some times I just have to shake my head... If you are going to get same-sex divorced? Then why get same-sex married to begin with?? Obviously people do not intend on getting divorced... But make sure when you are getting married it is for the right reasons. I know moving forward with mine and Matt's relationship that when we do get married, we will NEVER get divorced. I know in the bottom of my heart that neither of us can live without the other. We could not make it 5 days when he was away on business... there's no way we could last a lifetime away from each other. Rae can vouch for me... She has seen our relationship and the love we have for each other first hand. . . I just makes me wonder what they were thinking when they got married...  I'm sad that they didn't work out, but obviously they were not meant to be together. I just have to shake my head at this situation... ~Matt |
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Post by MisterC on May 9, 2014 12:46:38 GMT -6
Progress? We'll, if by "progress" you mean "anything but (progress)", then...sure.  <----my attempt at frustrated sarcasm In all seriousness, though, the way I personally see this situation is that, with this non-sensical act, the Show Me state obviously has shown no actual interest in promulgating more stable, committed relationships (albeit of the same-gender variety) within its jurisdiction. They continue to rail on with that same old worn-out, discredited canard that marriage equality for gays and lesbians threatens the "sanctity" of heterosexual marriages (however it is they justify that discombobulated, entirely illogical line of "thinking"), yet one of that state's judges is more than solicitous to grant a divorce to a same-sex couple whose marriage the state of Missouri never recognized in the first place. Yep, a divorce for a non-existent marriage.
Let those words sink in.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E (as Tammy Wynette would put it)...the real, honest-to-goodness threat to the very institution they claim to hold so dear. I don't get how they don't get how much of a non-sequitur that is. Do you think the sky is blue on their planet, too? Geez!  |
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I'm sad that they didn't work out, but obviously they were not meant to be together. I just have to shake my head at this situation... 
