Not before time, our divorce laws are going to be changed, or, as I like to put it, brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Couples are going to be allowed to divorce quicker with, one hopes, less acrimony. Thank God for that. No wait. Don’t thank God. His disciples don’t agree that divorce laws should change at all.
A spokesperson for the fanatical Christian Concern organisation, whose name escapes me (it doesn’t matter: any spokesperson for this lot would come out with the same tosh), was doing the media rounds this morning. He argued that anything that made divorce easier should be resisted and just because someone was unhappy in a marriage shouldn’t mean that they be able to get out of it. The gist of his argument was – and here I paraphrase – that marriage was a good thing and God didn’t like the idea of people getting married and then, if it didn’t work out, getting divorced. Well, that’s his opinion and he is free to give it. And I am free not to be interested in what he thinks on this issue.
If people choose to get married or divorced, it is their business and theirs only. It is not for me as an atheist or some Godwhacker from Christian Concern to tell them what to do. If you believe in one of the God characters in religious texts, you can, if you choose, live your lives according to ancient texts. For as long as your views do not interfere in any way with my life and the decisions I take, I am happy for you to hold them. I will mind my own business and you mind yours.
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