This is a headline long missing from the media. Today it is popular for Christians to loudly protest abortion and gay rights, issues Jesus never talked about specifically in the Bible. I often wonder why divorce gets away with so much, especially in the church. I never hear anyone complain that divorce is too popular, dangerous, and detrimental to society, especially not in the way the Bible does.
This lone headline caught my attention because I'd not seen anything like it before: 'Marriage Savers' Declares War on Divorce. Not only is the group Marriage Savers decrying divorce, they are attacking the cause of it: No Fault Divorce laws. They were quoted,
"Most view divorce as a personal issue, but in a larger sense No Fault Divorce, a law first signed in California in 1969 by then Gov. Ronald Reagan, has been the biggest killer of marriage in America. It swept the nation in the 1970s, pushing divorces up from 708,000 in 1970 to 1,036,000 five years later," the group said.
Most Christians want abortion rights overturned, but I've never even MET Christians who know about No Fault Divorce laws and see them as a problem.
Although I personally am torn between civic rights and the health of the family, I am just impressed to see Christians getting angry about something the Bible actually says angers God. Maybe if we focused more on lessing divorce and bolstering healthy families there would be less abortion, rebellion, crime and single-mother poverty.
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