Comments on: Proposed ballot measure would eliminate divorce

By: Gayle DeForest

Gayle DeForest — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:39:40 +0000

To “Truthclubber”: I love your idea of an initiative to eliminate the initiative process in California!

BTW, it’s “wreak havoc,” not “reek havoc.”

By: BJD

BJD — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:16:50 +0000

Nothing destroys the sanctity of marriage like divorce.

By: Bill Gram-Reefer

Bill Gram-Reefer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:02 +0000

I agree with Truthclubber, John W., and WL

It’s probably backed by Nevada Divorce Attys

By: John W.

John W. — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:43:58 +0000

How do we get a “divorce” from all the dumb and destructive initiatives that are currently on the books — too easy to pass and virtually impossible to reverse, even though many would not pass if proposed today?

By: WL

WL — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:13:08 +0000

Not a big deal; golddigger wives would simply go to Nevada to get a divorce if California voters banned divorce here. A better proposal would be to require that the innocent spouse be reimbursed by the spouse at fault for the divorce – i.e. guilty of adultery, physical abuse, or drug and alcohol abuse. Currently, the innocent are punished with alimony and loss of property when they have done nothing wrong and the breaching party gets a windfall. No fault divorce should be stopped, and the new initiative is a small step in that direction.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Oh noooo. Straight people might have to consider what it feels like for a fleeting moment what it would be like if someone took away their legal rights because of someone else’s fanatical religious beliefs. No, must…look away… from mirror. Must… go back…. to denial. Must go back to scapegoating other people for whats wrong with society. It couldn’t be US “normal” people that are responsible for the breakdown of the American family. Oh no… Its the gays.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:55:44 +0000

Great post.

By: steve weir

steve weir — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:35:34 +0000

I suspect that this is a spoof. It still takes over 600,000 valid signatures to qualify a Constitutional Amendment for the ballot. After all, it only takes $200 to get the Summary and Title. But, the proponent must circulate the petition and secure the minimum required to place it on the ballot.

I’ll bet that this is in response to Proposition 8 on the November, 2008 ballot.

By: Truthclubber

Truthclubber — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:03:08 +0000

This is proof positive that the initiative process as we know it in California is so dysfunctionally broken that it cannot be repaired. $200 bucks to reek havoc on the ability of couples to even peacefully divorce if for whatever reason they got married for the wrong reasons? I am going to find someone who will shell out 200 clams for the filing fee so that I can write an initiative to “eliminate the initiative process in California” — look at the budgetary savings THAT will yield!