Looks like Brownback in Kansas has called in every hard-core marriage-is-forever-but-only-for-heteros fanatic to come visit and help him put formulate a real winner of a plan.
Topeka Capital Journal:
This foursome was among 20 people who met behind closed doors in Topeka to share marriage program ideas with Brownback and executives at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. During the April encounter, the governor urged invitees to think in terms of "Hail Mary" approaches to boosting marriage rates and slashing divorce rates in Kansas.
What kind of hail marys?
Polygamy
Blankenhorn, of the Institute for American Values, raised eyebrows in a California federal court three years ago while offering testimony on same-sex marriage. He said polygamy didn't violate the "rule of two people."
"Even in instances of a man engaging in polygamous marriage, each marriage is separate," Blankenhorn said.
Why do I think that won't cut both ways?
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Marrying for money
Wade Horn, who redefined President George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, preached a gospel that encouraged poor women to marry their way out of poverty.
Pair this polygamy, and I think we're done with prostitution in our lifetime. And they said it couldn't be done
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Marriage Exams
Clergy members in each Kansas county should sign and enforce a "community marriage policy" to prohibit church weddings unless the couple completed a 200-item, premarital inventory and met several times with a mentor couple trained by the church, McManus said.
Number 27 makes clear birth control makes popes cry and the devil eat a kitten. All couples need to hit it out of the park and into the crib on night one.
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Divorce only if you get smacked around or screwed around on, and only if you could really prove it
In his follow-up letter to Brownback obtained by The Topeka Capital-Journal, McManus said Kansas should prohibit no-fault divorce unless there was proof of physical abuse or adultery.
Private eyes everywhere just figured out where Kansas actually was
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And only if you are willing to give up everything you have
A Kansas law ought to be passed, he said, allowing judges to select a "responsible spouse," which would always be the person opposed to divorce. The statute would allow the responsible adult to receive up to 66 percent of child visitation and 100 percent of family assets in the divorce.
So remember conservative christian men, don't lay a finger on 'em. Just verbally abuse, browbeat, ignore their needs and control them till you get the car, the house, and the kids. 'Cause it's their fault they want a divorce.
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And make sure you get an unhappily divorced man to head up the program.
From the Kansas Health Institute
In January, Siedlecki told members of the Mental Health Coalition of Kansas that his divorce was due to his wife tiring of the uncertainty and frequent moves that accompanied public service.
“It’s not like I’m ‘holier than thou, I’m on the other side,’" he told coalition members. "I’ve seen the suffering. I have two daughters. It bothers me every day. I hope that someday I can talk to God and ask ‘Why?’”
Maybe she saw the writing on the wall, and realized "responsible spouse" meant something different than he did
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I come from Kansas, and I swear that place gets crazier the longer I am away. Just when you beat back the humans-riding-dinosaurs crowd, up pops this mob. I wish the ghost of William Allen White would sweep through Topeka and carry off Brownback to 17th Century Boston. He wouldn't last til the harvest, and would look ridiculous in that black hat. Everyone in Rhode Island would laugh at him while he was persecuted by the Puritans for not being religious enough.
The sad thing is the majority of Kansas voters wanted this fool. What do they want to be, Utah?