The GOP Culture War Escalates

[Lee]

Republicans renew push to restrict divorce
FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As the Trump administration continues
its opening barrage of contentious
executive actions targeting federal
protections for marginalized Americans,
legislators at the state level are
taking another shot at no-fault divorce,
renewing a heretofore quiet effort to
turn a fringe idea — restricting
Americans' ability to get a divorce —
into a potential reality in the most
conservative states.

In Oklahoma last month, a state senator
introduced for the second time a bill
seeking to remove "incompatibility"
from the state's grounds for divorce,
while also proposing a separate piece
of legislation that would provide a
tax credit to encourage covenant
marriages, which make it harder for
spouses to obtain a divorce. In Indiana,
a now-dead bill introduced last month
aimed to add a hurdle for married
couples with minor children seeking a
divorce on no-fault grounds.

The recent bills targeting no-fault
divorce come against a backdrop of
a slew of executive actions at the
federal level that threaten civil
rights and freedoms for a host of
Americans.

Marcia Zug, a professor of marital
law at the University of South Carolina
School of Law, told Salon that she
expects more of this kind of
legislation to arise in the years to
come because of their spread. Despite
these bills' current unpopularity,
their failures are not dissuading
lawmakers in other states from
introducing similar proposals

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/20/its-not-being-looked-at-as-a-crazy-thing-emboldened-renew-push-to-restrict-divorce/

[NoBody]

Post by Lee
Republicans renew push to restrict divorce
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
As the Trump administration continues
its opening barrage of contentious
executive actions targeting federal
protections for marginalized Americans,
legislators at the state level are
taking another shot at no-fault divorce,
renewing a heretofore quiet effort to
turn a fringe idea — restricting
Americans' ability to get a divorce —
into a potential reality in the most
conservative states.
In Oklahoma last month, a state senator
introduced for the second time a bill
seeking to remove "incompatibility"
from the state's grounds for divorce,
while also proposing a separate piece
of legislation that would provide a
tax credit to encourage covenant
marriages, which make it harder for
spouses to obtain a divorce. In Indiana,
a now-dead bill introduced last month
aimed to add a hurdle for married
couples with minor children seeking a
divorce on no-fault grounds.
The recent bills targeting no-fault
divorce come against a backdrop of
a slew of executive actions at the
federal level that threaten civil
rights and freedoms for a host of
Americans.
Marcia Zug, a professor of marital
law at the University of South Carolina
School of Law, told Salon that she
expects more of this kind of
legislation to arise in the years to
come because of their spread. Despite
these bills' current unpopularity,
their failures are not dissuading
lawmakers in other states from
introducing similar proposals
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/20/its-not-being-looked-at-as-a-crazy-thing-emboldened-renew-push-to-restrict-divorce/

I don't see what issue you would have making such a serious matter as
divorce under tighter control. The culture has distintigrated under
easy divorce laws: single moms in poverty, children going hungry etc.
You're such a compassionate liberal...

[Lee]

Post by NoBody

Post by Lee
Republicans renew push to restrict divorce
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
As the Trump administration continues
its opening barrage of contentious
executive actions targeting federal
protections for marginalized Americans,
legislators at the state level are
taking another shot at no-fault divorce,
renewing a heretofore quiet effort to
turn a fringe idea — restricting
Americans' ability to get a divorce —
into a potential reality in the most
conservative states.
In Oklahoma last month, a state senator
introduced for the second time a bill
seeking to remove "incompatibility"
from the state's grounds for divorce,
while also proposing a separate piece
of legislation that would provide a
tax credit to encourage covenant
marriages, which make it harder for
spouses to obtain a divorce. In Indiana,
a now-dead bill introduced last month
aimed to add a hurdle for married
couples with minor children seeking a
divorce on no-fault grounds.
The recent bills targeting no-fault
divorce come against a backdrop of
a slew of executive actions at the
federal level that threaten civil
rights and freedoms for a host of
Americans.
Marcia Zug, a professor of marital
law at the University of South Carolina
School of Law, told Salon that she
expects more of this kind of
legislation to arise in the years to
come because of their spread. Despite
these bills' current unpopularity,
their failures are not dissuading
lawmakers in other states from
introducing similar proposals

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/20/its-not-being-looked-at-as-a-crazy-thing-emboldened-renew-push-to-restrict-divorce/

Post by NoBody
I don't see what issue you would have making such a serious matter as
divorce under tighter control.

Our rightwing culture heroes - Lauren
Boebert, MTG, Trump - all took advantage
of no-fault divorce. But if OTHERS want
to do that, well, they need "tighter
control", as you put it.


From the article:

"In 1969, then-California Governor Ronald
Reagan's implementation of no-fault divorce
set off a tidal wave of other states adopting
"incompatibility" as divorce grounds over the
following 20 years."

[Siri Cruise]

Post by NoBody
I don't see what issue you would have making such a serious matter as
divorce under tighter control. The culture has distintigrated under
easy divorce laws: single moms in poverty, children going hungry etc.
You're such a compassionate liberal...

Women today forgot how to take a punch. We have to toughen them up
again.

Back when America was still great, women had to wait until their
sons shot their fathers during drunken outrages.