John Marcotte Wants to Ban Divorce in California

by Sara on 09/27/09 filed under Other Claims

With gay marriage out of the way, are there other, more pressing threats against traditional marriage that must be addressed? As I wrote in a recent article on Examiner.com:

A Sacramento man is collecting signatures in an effort to get the “California Protection of Marriage Act” on the ballot. If passed, divorce would be banned in the Golden State.

Writer John Marcotte, the mastermind behind Rescuemarraige.org, told CNN this Act “is largely based on the bible,” but he isn’t the religious fundamentalist many have made him out to be. In actuality, he’s launched this campaign to satirize Proposition 8, which made gay marriage illegal in the state of California in November of 2008.

John Marcotte wants to ban divorce in California. But is that only fair?

Apparently, Marcotte told Cockeyed.com that he’s simply trying to “extend the good work done with Proposition 8 last year.”

This leaves us with two very important questions. 1) If gay marriage should be banned because it is a threat to traditional marriage, how on earth can we, as a country, justify allowing divorce without exposing our own hypocrisy and anti-gay agenda?

And, 2) Is there any chance that a ban on divorce could actually pass?