It looks like before the country's even settled its division over gay marriage, it'll have another topic to take on:
Gay Divorce.
Due to the murky nature of gay marriage, same-sex couples that now want to get a divorce are finding that it's a litigious Wild West.
Some states are putting up resistance, whereas others are flat out refusing divorce to gay couples.
The reason this is such a sticky issue is that if a state dissolves a marriage, they then have to recognize a marriage. States that will recognize marriages performed in other states are grappling with what to do if a couple wants to be recognized in their state as being divorced.
Sound confusing? That's because it is.
It's also...a little bit funny.
States that want to keep marriage between a man and a woman are now refusing to separate men and men and women and women that previously wanted to be joined in what those states considered to be unholy unions.
It almost sounds like parents punishing kids.
"You wanted to get in that gay marriage, now you're going to stay in it!"
Can I just say, on a personal note, that it is ultimately very disappointing to me that some of the people asking for divorces were also people who were screaming for their right to be married.
What does it look like when people who championed gay marriage end up divorced less than a year later? I know that part of being married is having the right to divorce just like straight peoople do, but it's still disheartening.
When you hear all those sob stories about couples who'd been together twenty years only to divorce after their union was legally recognized, it sort of makes you wonder if maybe being allowed to get married is the worst thing that can happen to a couple...
Gay Divorce.
Due to the murky nature of gay marriage, same-sex couples that now want to get a divorce are finding that it's a litigious Wild West.
Some states are putting up resistance, whereas others are flat out refusing divorce to gay couples.
The reason this is such a sticky issue is that if a state dissolves a marriage, they then have to recognize a marriage. States that will recognize marriages performed in other states are grappling with what to do if a couple wants to be recognized in their state as being divorced.
Sound confusing? That's because it is.
It's also...a little bit funny.
States that want to keep marriage between a man and a woman are now refusing to separate men and men and women and women that previously wanted to be joined in what those states considered to be unholy unions.
It almost sounds like parents punishing kids.
"You wanted to get in that gay marriage, now you're going to stay in it!"
Can I just say, on a personal note, that it is ultimately very disappointing to me that some of the people asking for divorces were also people who were screaming for their right to be married.
What does it look like when people who championed gay marriage end up divorced less than a year later? I know that part of being married is having the right to divorce just like straight peoople do, but it's still disheartening.
When you hear all those sob stories about couples who'd been together twenty years only to divorce after their union was legally recognized, it sort of makes you wonder if maybe being allowed to get married is the worst thing that can happen to a couple...
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