Thousands Renew Vows in Arkansas (in 'Covenant-Marriage' Ceremony)

[truthpusher]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4800813,00.html

Thousands Renew Vows in Arkansas

Tuesday February 15, 2005 4:46 AM

By CARYN ROUSSEAU

Associated Press Writer

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Thousands of couples joined Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and first lady Janet Huckabee in renewing their wedding vows at a Valentine's Day ceremony supporting the state's voluntary covenant-marriage law that makes divorce harder to obtain.

``There is a crisis in America,'' the Republican governor told a crowd of 6,400 at an arena Monday night. ``That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.''

Before the Huckabees renewed their wedding vows, they signed legal papers converting their 30-year marriage to a covenant marriage. Organizers of the event did not ask other couples to convert their marriages.

Under the 2001 Arkansas law, couples getting a covenant marriage agree to seek counseling before they wed and before they seek a divorce. A covenant marriage also requires a two-year wait before a divorce becomes final, except in cases of adultery, abuse or imprisonment for a felony.

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[digno dave]

1. so what

Mocking their morals is a one way ticket to defeat. No shame here, let them do what they want.

[truthpusher]

18. OMG, are you really unable to see what is going on here?

regarding ridicule - remember when the swift-vets told Kerry he should have not made the vet thing such a big deal? - That it was his own fault for making it such a big deal? Well they have a point. These people obviously want this to become law for all. Why? Because the US is a better place when rule by Christian laws (Taliban anyone?).

[BattyDem]

2. Here's an idea ...

If you think divorce is wrong, don't get one! :eyes:

Can't these robots do anything without the government getting involved?

Hey folks ... if you need a law to keep your marriage together, then the two of you probably shouldn't be together.

[malestripper4u]

16. Can't these robots do anything without the government getting involved?

EXACTLY what I was thinking BattyDem!

MS

[Book Lover]

3. "Imprisonment for a felony"

You know, the vows *I* took included a little thing about "better or worse." Sounds like this marriage law doesn't think that's so very important.

[bluestateguy]

4. Far be it from me to interfere with people getting married

If two people want to enter into a covenant marriage, then I say fine, even if those two people are two gay men or two lesbian women.

[Philosophy]

5. So if people want a divorce really badly

They have an incentive to commit adultery, be abusive, or commit a felony? Real smart there, Mr. Family Values.

[Historic NY]

6. It was on MSNBC that Arkansas has the highest divorce rate in the nation

[The Flaming Red Head]

10. "I un-do" is the joke in the state

To get married in Ark all you have to do is say "I do" and to get divorced all you have to do is say "I un-do"

[genieroze]

7. Pathetic, moronic, asinine. Been married 23 years the regular marriage

worked for me.

[quaker bill]

8. I already veiw my marriage as a covenant.

I do not need a special ceremony provided by the government to affirm this.

[dbt]

9. This is the kind of shit that happens when a Baptist preacher

is elected Governor. I believe that some public funds were used for this little spectacle as well.

Interesting that the Party Of Smaller Government will always make more laws to ensure that the peasants stay moral. What a pompous eejit.

:freak:
dbt
Friendship AR
Population 206, not counting dogs

[Southern Dem 2005]

11. More important things for Dems to worry about

this issue is irrelevant. If they want to engage in covenant marriages let them. This affects no one else.

[Jacobin]

12. Amazes me that these doofuses who pretend to

hate the government and want all regulations of people and businesses to end, go crawling to the government to get them to pass laws "make them stay married'.

bizarre.

[atommom]

13. It's all those OTHER people that need to be made to stay married ...

you know, the ones with "loose morals." :eyes: I don't understand the need for such a big spectacle, but I don't object to it as long as public funds aren't being used for it. I just doubt that divorce in Arkansas will go away, covenant marriages or not.

But .... <paranoid liberal radar engaged> does this remind anyone else of the Moonies? Or the mass marriages in Handmaid's Tale, for that matter?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Flashing me back to the Moonie mass marriages..... yuck.

[LinuxInsurgent]

15. My marriage is better than your marriage

You puny liberal...you just got "regular marriage"...nyah...nyah...I got to go to counseling before I divorce....nyah...nyah....you don't!

While you realize that you've spent life with the wrong person and quickly divorce...and go on with your life, having the time of your life and meeting new women/men, I have to go to counseling with Bubba...and if that doesn't work, cheat on him without him knowing....but...

WE'RE STILL MARRIED...NYAH...NYAH!

[yorkiemommie1]

17. religiosity again

n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. Doesn't this seem a little "Moonie-ish" to you?

Huge group weddings? The right wing Baptist church I grew up in never did anything like that.

Is ol' Huck another right wing disciple of the false messiah Moon?

[sarcasmo]

20. Arkansas, another state I will not spend money in, or move to.

[Logansquare]

21. How do all those people in Massachusetts stay married?

Lowest divorce rate in the U.S., if I remember correctly.

[oneighty]

22. Look look look at us

We are so Christian

We are so cute

We are so much in love

We are so devoted to each other

And we got the papers to prove it.

I do hope they never ever divorce.

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