“Divorce is just terrible,” Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. “It’s one of Satan’s best tools to kill America.”

I don’t think you’d find many people in the United States who would proclaim that divorce is just a hunky-dory process that should be encouraged whenever possible. But there are times and situations in which divorce is better than the alternative. Besides, is it the job of government to tell people when they can and when they cannot divorce? Is it the job of government to prohibit divorce in the name of fighting Satan? Idaho Republicans in state government think so. Their task force has recommended the outlawing of no-fault divorce, a practice in which a married couple can end their marriage without having to prove to the government that they’ve done anything wrong.

What will it take for these busybodies to get out of our lives? Um, voting them out of office would help.

(Source: Idaho Statesman November 9 2007)

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