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Not The Onion!
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/christian-couple-vow-to-divorce-if-samesex-marriage-is-legalised-20150610-ghl3o6.html
The Christian couple have been happily married for over a decade, have no intention of separating and hope to have more children. For all intents and purposes they have a healthy marriage.
But in a novel protest against any successful move to legalise same sex marriage in Australia, Jensen wrote in an article published in Canberra CityNews on Wednesday that they are prepared to divorce.
"My wife and I, as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognise the government's regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnisation of same sex couples," said Jensen, who is director of the Lachlan Macquarie Institute, which partners with the Australian Christian Lobby to offer scholarships designed to develop a Christian worldview and foster leaders in government policy.
How very Christian of them.
brooklynite
(95,060 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)At least so long as the traditionally married couple are absolute dolts.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)They want to fuck up their own marriage who will care except them?
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)themselves, then I say good. I doubt if anyone else cares.
old guy
(3,284 posts)GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)I knew it would be stupid. And I was not disappointed.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Whatever the fuck it's supposed to show...
JustAnotherGen
(32,053 posts)I've ever read. These people are idiots!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,422 posts)"was briefly associated with a bunch of fundamentalist loons who got divorced to show off how 'Christian' they were. But please vote for me anyway - I grew up after that."
stopbush
(24,401 posts)Conceited, self-aggrandizing bigots. Pure and simple. Their religion pretty much demands they be bigots.
edhopper
(33,667 posts)and wants to marry their lover.
Tha'ts my story and I'm sticking to it.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)My wife ran off with my best friend. How do I get him back?
edhopper
(33,667 posts)Like the guy who finds his wife with his best friend and says;
"Herb, I have to, but you??"
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Divorces are expensive as heck.
Good luck with that.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)and do so by divorcing? lol
TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)Initech
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I am gonna shoot out all the streetlights to make the sun go down.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)to prove their Christianity.
randome
(34,845 posts)So their stupid statement is simply...stupid. Way to represent your country, ignoramuses!
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