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Jesse - Sep 17, 2011 11:49:15 am PDT #26827 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It was Pat Robertson, Jesse. Falwell's dead.

Oh yeah. Oops. Anyway, I think it's bananas.

Well, see, because abandoning your spouse in need is better than adultery. Which the guy was committing by dating women while his wife was zonked.

I think so many things about this. First that getting divorced doesn't necessarily mean abandoning, actually. Also that some people get legally divorced for financial reasons in these circumstances. Also that dating isn't necessarily adultery. Also that adultery might not be the worst thing in the world, anyway. Also that shouldn't someone who's so up in arms about the bible and morality and marriage be against divorce?

Anyway.

Allyson - Sep 17, 2011 11:50:49 am PDT #26828 of 30001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh yeah. Oops. Anyway, I think it's bananas.

I think Sullivan posted something to the affect that if his reasoning is that marriage is just a contract (and that seems to be his reasoning) and not a holy union, that his issue with gay marriage is moot.

Dana - Sep 17, 2011 11:51:45 am PDT #26829 of 30001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's just one more thing that makes me wish a cartoon anvil would fall on Pat Robertson's head.

Jesse - Sep 17, 2011 11:52:08 am PDT #26830 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is what I'm saying. If HE's saying that you can get divorced when your marriage is inconvenient and difficult, then WTF.

bon bon - Sep 17, 2011 11:52:13 am PDT #26831 of 30001

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I thought his reasoning was that the afflicted spouse was "gone" from the marriage, making it not wrongful.

I don't view it as abandonment either, since the person might already be in a care situation. They might find someone else, too -- Sandra Day O'Conner's husband did.

Allyson - Sep 17, 2011 11:55:28 am PDT #26832 of 30001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I thought his reasoning was that the afflicted spouse was "gone" from the marriage, making it not wrongful.

I misunderstood, then. Or got shitty data.

Dana - Sep 17, 2011 11:56:20 am PDT #26833 of 30001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

He said Alzheimer's was like being dead, so, "til death do us part."

Amy - Sep 17, 2011 11:58:04 am PDT #26834 of 30001

Because books.

I saw a clip of it and he seemed to be saying that the person you'd married was essentially gone, yeah.

Still. It certainly surprised me to hear it from him.

Allyson - Sep 17, 2011 11:59:08 am PDT #26835 of 30001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Still. It certainly surprised me to hear it from him.

Yeah. That's definitely seems off, considering the source.

Jesse - Sep 17, 2011 12:02:11 pm PDT #26836 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's all I'm saying. Not that as a concept it's horrible, but I don't get it from him.

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