You know, with Indiana’s long constitutional amendment process, I’ve often wondered if those legislators (like Brian Bosma) that keep pushing the amendment here won’t end up in divorce court before it’s finished. After all, if gays and lesbians are such a threat to their marriages, how will they be able to carry on for years? Maybe they should start forcing their wives to follow a few steps behind them wherever they go so they can keep an eye on them – just to make sure nothing threatens the marriage, you know.

Here Here!

I’ve been saying this for years!

I think this is a much better goal than the folks in Washington State trying change legislation to make all married couples have children. (Which never really made logical sense to me — )

I agree, atleast to some degree.
I think that they should make it harder to get divorced. Only people who are being abused should be able to divorce.While cheating on your spouse is punnishable by jail time. I think the reason so many marriages fail is because our laws make it too easy to get divorced. Kids today act like it’s the same as dating someone. and as easy to get over.

I think you're all wrong!!! Who are you to tell someone they can't get a divorce!!!!!!! I'm not saying it's a good thing. If you're getting married it should be for the long run, but come on! People change. They get more mature, wiser, and sometimes stupidier as they age, and they realize they don't want to be in that relationship anymore. People who lie and cheat don't even deserve to be married because they obviously don't care about their spouse so why should their spouse stay with them? Next you're going to make it legal to drink and drive!

I don't know if divorce should be illegal but better guidelines should be set up. My wife just filed for divorce. I love her with heart and sole. I would do anything to make her happy. In 9 years of marriage I have never even had the thought of cheating, abuse, or anything that would make her unhappy. When I found out she wanted a divorce I was/am willing to make the changes she would need to make her happy again but she said it was to late. I would do anything to make her happy and that is why I agreed to the divorce. I have held up my end of the commitment and what do I get in return, divorced! I think that marriage counseling should be mandated before anyone enters into a forever binding contract. In counseling a prenump should be discussed on what happens when and if the marriage fails(that is what they are designed to do). I wish I would have looked at a prenumptual not so much for what's mine is mine and what's hers is hers but what would constitute termination of the marriage. Obviously abuse, adultery, and things of those nature could be grounds for divorce, but what happens when you really try and the person leaves for no great reason except unhappiness. The one willing to try at the marriage should get something, and this should all be spelled out before the marriage starts.

When you are 20, you are a different person to who you are at the age of 40. As we grow physically, we grow mentally. We experiece more things, changing what we want and expect from life. A marriage is a commitment that should be respected and cherished. However, i believe divorce is acceptable, but that doesn’t mean loss of faithfulness is. The par tof the marriage where being faithful is involved is a promise that is made and should be kept. This way we are not lessening the value of marriage, all we are doing is accepting the fact that we grow and change. Face it, people make mistakes, we make wrong decisions and we learn. NO relationship whether it be marriage or a short term, is easy. What is lessening the value of marriage is the lack of effort, the ones who give up the instant things don't go their way… these are the ones that lessen the value of marriage today. Divorce should not be illegal. People should just think twice before they act. – Commitment and respect.

So, just because you 'make a promise,' YOU want these people to be bound by law to that promise? When you promise your wife/husband to take out the trash, how bout I say 'he/she made a promise, now they aren't fulfilling it, so ITS ILLEGAL!!!' How naive, ignorant, childish, and all-out stupid! Just get over it! People make promises every damn day, yet nobody is trippin over those promises.

Soooo, the sanctity of marriage is not something we should protect if heterosexual couples that dont like each other anymore want to get divorced, we should only protect marriage from two people that love each other because of what they do behind closed doors and happen to be the same sex.

I'm for divorce. I don't think people should be forced to stay married. I am, however, against remarriage and tax benefits for subsequent marriages after the first. I believe people would be more thoughtful about marriage if they truly only had one chance at it. After that, couples could contract for subsequent relationships.

I'm for divorce. I don't think people should be forced to stay married. I am, however, against remarriage and tax benefits for subsequent marriages after the first. I believe people would be more thoughtful about marriage if they truly only had one chance at it. After that, couples could contract for subsequent relationships.

I agree, totally.
MAYBE ppl will take Marriage more seriously if divorce was illegal!!! It seems like people don't even think about the promise thats made in order to get married. I think its selfish to marry, have children, and then just one day decide you have “fallin out of love”. Its selfish not to TRY, and go to councilling, or SOMETHING. Not only for yourself, but for your children. Its too easy to get a divorce. It shouldn't be as easy as it is!

i think it should be very hard to get a divorce you said i do you said for rich poorer hey that all means take the highs with the lows unless your getting beat down hey try and i mean really try to work it out my husband and i have been married for 4 yrs and his mother does not like me never has even as children growing up and i have no idea why but when we said i do it became we three she is so into our marriage and not her own that he has filed for divorce and than says but i still want to be with you i dont understand he still wants every inch of me but does not want to be married and when i ask why just says cuz i dont want to be married right now maybe we can try it again later down the line i love him we have been through alot a whole lot but we can still make each other laugh and we can still talk for hours and hours i still get chills when he touches me what do i do the papers are filed already but i feel like it should be all or nothing

I am so glad that you raised this point! Divorce is the true threat to marriage – literally! And its devastating effects on children has been demonstrated by empirically validated scientific studies over and over. It ruins lives, costs money, and makes light of a serious, life-changing, binding act (and for those of you who are religious), an act before God.

There must be clauses for special cases for those who are in outstanding circumstances (physical abuse, rape, illegal activities, etc.). But by and large, marriage ought to be what it has always been (up until this century): a binding, permanent union between two people.

I agree Abdul. Excellent post.

The easiest way to end divorce is to make marriage illegal. By prohibiting marriage, we could put the gay marriage issue to rest.

God does NOT recognize divorce as ending a marriage. This is proven in Scripture. Jesus said you will be committing adultery while on a honeymoon with a “new person” after a divorce and a remarriage ceremony. If you are committing adultery AFTER a divorce and remarriage ceremony your divorce did NOT work (it did not end your marriage). Most people refuse to accept the TRUTH.

A marriage covenant lasts until the death of one of the spouses according to God. People would never even go to the courthouse to obtain a divorce certificate if they knew the truth. Those divorce papers do not end their marriage. The papers say the “State of Indiana” has dissolved the marriage–NOT GOD! God says, “A wife is married to her husband as long as he lives.” 1 Corinthians 7:39

Jesus said if you get a divorce and then remarry you will be committing adultery with this new person AFTER you marry them. AFTER you marry them! If you can commit adultery AFTER a divorce—the divorce failed to do something…it failed to DISSOLVE YOUR MARRIAGE! Divorce papers do not dissolve the marriage in Gods sight if He is charging you with adultery AFTER you obtained your divorce. Those papers did not make you single again. Remarried people are committing adultery with each other.

A REAL husband and wife cannot commit adultery with each other. That is why this is NOT your spouse. Jesus was saying you are not free AFTER a divorce because you can still commit adultery. To commit adultery you need a spouse–so the divorce did not free you from your spouse–you are not eligible for remarriage because you are still married according to God. There is just no way around it. The church today is afraid to tell people what Jesus said.

Jesus calls remarried sex–ADULTERY. Why would anyone believe that new person is “their spouse in God’s eyes” if they are committing adultery with them? Jesus said they are committing adultery AFTER they had their remarriage ceremony so how could that person possibly be their spouse? They were remarried by “the state” not by God.

No one reads their Bible–they listen to pastors tell them God forgives them and they do not have to give up their adultery partner, their so called “new spouse.” If Jesus says you are committing adultery with this “new spouse” how can you claim that this is your lawful spouse in the eyes of God?

We need to stop listening to everyone around us and listen to Jesus. He really meant what He said. Divorced people have no right to remarriage. Their divorce did not make them single.

The ONLY people in the Bible who commit adultery when they marry are divorced people, not single people, not widowed people, ONLY divorced people! Why is that? They are NOT FREE to marry. Their divorce did not make them FREE if they can commit adultery AFTER a divorce, like Jesus said.

Most people won’t flee this kind of adultery because they have been deceived by Satan to stay in it even though God’s Word is clear. They are living in Adultery. Remarriage is the greatest DECEPTION of our time.
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It is a binding, permanent union between two people according to God! People just don’t know it.

“A wife is married to her husband as long as he lives.” 1 Corinthians 7:39

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This article sound to be motivating and inspiring for a depressing marriage life. Divorce making it illegal? Oh! this might be helpful. Yes, I agree that marriage life is vowing for forever and a lifetime commitment. But how about if two couples are now in struggle and in pain working out to make their marriage happy but nothing happen. Will you still let the divorce illegal. I think its not working for me. To help you more understand why divorce is given by chance because of some valid reasons. Visit this site http://www.divorceguide.com/ and you will definitely understand more about divorce.

I think that they should make it harder time to get divorced. Only those people who are being abused should be able to divorce.

She is divorcing you because you can’t spell. So would I. Sole? Prenump? And how can you selfishly expect your wife to stay in a marriage in spite of “unhappiness.”

She is divorcing you because you can’t spell. So would I. Sole? Prenump? And how can you selfishly expect your wife to stay in a marriage in spite of “unhappiness.”