Breach of contract is a civil matter; it is not illegal in itself. :rolleyes:
Care to try again?
You really think divorce should be illegal? Meaning that everyone who has remarried after being divorced is practicing bigamy? Or that all second marriages are null and void?
Adultery IS illegal in many states. I remember hearing on the news a few years ago that an angry husband insisted that his straying wife be arrested. After much protest, the police did arrest her, because, after all, it was technically on the books, and the husband was willing to swear out a complaint.
Adultery illegal?
Do you know how many marriages that would break up?
With half the spouses in jail?
How about making sex outside of marriage illegal too?
Know anyone who wouldn’t be in jail then?
I don’t.
Um, back to the OP. 
In the 80s, there was a Mighty Mouse cartoon in which our esteemed hero was given a bouquet of flowers from his love interest. He sniffed said flowers, and in a typical cartoon depiction of being smitten, became a bit euphoric. Wildmon thought this was promoting cocaine usage, and actually succeeded in having it cut from future showings.
He’s also the same person who sent out a direct mail piece with the following:
He’s just a ignorant old man, who unfortunately shares the same state with me. It’s too bad that he happens to wield an enormous amount of power and influence.
To be honest, I think he’s protecting his cash cow more than anything. I’d love to see the tax return of this United Methodist Minister.
As an aside, while I’m an atheist, I was raised United Methodist, and to this day I remember that the one thing I did like about them was that they seemed to be much more tolerant than many of the other branches of Christianity. Apparently that’s not the case in all areas.
To be clear, I think the idea of making divorce illegal would be a more accurate way to “protect the institution of marriage” than preventing same-sex couples to get married.
For the record, I do NOT think making divorce illegal is in any way, shape or form a good idea. Both as a way to “protect” marriage are ridiculous.
Esprix
I knew what you meant. Jersey Diamond didn’t sound like she was kidding though, and that made me go :dubious: .
I remember that Mighty Mouse controversy. From my recollection of the art therefrom, it seemed pretty obvious that the animators had indeed intended to make a drugs inside joke.
–Cliffy
I feel the simplest solution would be to ELIMINATE marriage as a matter of civil law.
It’s simply a special case of contract law, and by eliminating a category with it’s special cases, prohibitions and mandates, the entire matter could be more simply governed - from the point of view of the state - by a variety of prenuptial agreements; either common prenups for common situations or individually crafted ones for complex multifaceted arrangements.
This would do nothing to damage the religious institution of marriage, which is a separate issue of great important to some and none at all to others.
But it seems to me that entangling the two concepts does violence to the intent of each.
Well, Ralph Bakshi adamantly denies it, and considering some of the work he put out, he’d have little reason to deny something like that. We are talking about the same guy who did Fritz the Cat. I think I’ll take the word of Bakshi over the person who heard Donald Duck say “Fuck” (of which, after careful review and even temporarily removing it from the shelves, censor-happy Walmart referred to as an “overactive imagination” on the part of Wildmon). Remember, Wildmon is the guy who thinks gays are “recruiting” our children, since they can’t breed their own little homosexuals. Think of the children!
Mighty Mouse sniffed the flower into his nose. Popeye used to sniff spinach into his nose also, so does that mean he was also promoting drug use?
Wildmon’s such a fruit-cake that he scared away Falwell at one point. How fucking fringe do you have to be to accomplish that?