Virginia homobigots now take on divorcing hets

Pam: Yeah, we told you it was coming, folks. After the bible-thumping goons who successfully passed an amendment barring gays and lesbians from marrying (as well as civil unions and tossing private DP arrangements into legal jeopardy), it was only a matter of time before they went after hets. Misery loves company – welcome aboard.

Maybe now straight folks will wake up and see what allowing the right to run wild has done to their state in the name of "protecting marriage."

365gay:

Now the Family Foundation of Virginia has begun a drive to end no-fault divorce in the state.

No-fault allows either partner in a marriage to get a divorce without specific grounds. That person can then apply for full custody rights over the couple's children. It currently is available in most states.

The Family Foundation says it makes divorce too easy to get and disadvantages children. It is supporting a proposed bill that would require specific grounds - such adultery - for couples with minor children.

"Right now, one spouse can unilaterally end [a marriage], and not only is their spouse unable to stop the divorce, their abandonment does not preclude them from having custody of their child," Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation told a news conference this week.

This is the same Victoria Cobb, who, during the amendment fight, unloaded this disingenuous statement before the measure was passed in November.

Victoria Cobb, executive director of the Family Foundation, the Richmond-based group that backed the 2004 law and the proposed constitutional amendment, said the goal isn't to drive gay people out. She said "extreme homosexual organizations" might be trying to frighten their members by circulating false information about the amendment. She said it wouldn't add new restrictions on gays but would simply underscore the ways their relationships are already restricted.

"I think it's extremely sad they would leave because of something they were never allowed to do anyway," said Cobb, who said she believed gays could go to court to defend themselves if a partner's family members challenged their right to own property in common, arrange powers of attorney or visit each other in the hospital.

These folks are out of control. But we've been saying that all along.