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No-fault divorce a greater threat to marriage than homosexuality
LifeSiteNews.com – September 21, 2010
No-Fault Divorce a Greater threat to Marriage than Gay ‘Marriage’: Expert
By James Tillman
According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, professor of political science at Patrick Henry College and author of “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” the government “is engaged in a direct assault on the family” that is causing family breakdown – which in turn allows government to reach into yet more areas of civil society under the pretext of solving the problems that the breakdown of the family creates.
“I would go so far as to say that family breakdown is the major engine driving domestic government expansion and spending: crime, substance abuse, educational failure, law enforcement,” Dr. Baskerville told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). “All these costs are attributable to single-parent homes more than any other single factor.”
(To read the complete interview, including many things not contained in this summary, click here.)
Dr. Baskerville claimed that the government promotes family breakdown through “a panoply of destructive laws” linked to divorce.
“Unlike cultural threats to the family, divorce is a government regime,” he stated. “It is not eroding the family; it is quite deliberately dismantling it.”
For instance, he said that no-fault divorce laws are a more serious threat to the family than same-sex “marriage,” which he called “a symptom of how debased marriage has already become, not a cause of it.”
No-fault divorce was signed into law in New York State by Governor David Paterson last month; New York was the last U.S. state to pass such a law.
No-fault divorce, explained Dr. Baskerville, codifies “unilateral and involuntary divorce” and thereby permits the spouse breaking up the marriage and the divorce court to “force the innocent spouse to shoulder the burden of the consequences.”
“The innocent spouse generally loses his children, his home and property, and his freedom for literally ‘no fault’ of his own and for any failure to cooperate with the divorce.”
Other laws are also connected with the “divorce-regime,” he continued. False accusations of domestic violence are now common, he said, nearly all of which are “generated to secure custody of children in divorce cases.”
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