Texas Lawmakers Suggests a Two Year Wait for Divorces…By Law

Sometimes marriages just don’t work. Someone cheats on someone, or someone is beating someone, or whatever. Divorce is an option that is available to those couples that can no longer stand to be together.

It is an option that is probably abused, or used as an escape when things get too difficult in the marriage, but I don’t think this is the solution:

Texans would have to wait two years to get a divorce — unless they take a class designed to save their marriage — under a proposal a key state lawmaker says he plans to revive.

State Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, sought to get a similar measure passed in 2007. He said he’s planning to bring it back as one of his priorities for the legislative session that begins in January.

“The deal is, we need to take marriage more seriously,” said Chisum, who in October will celebrate his 51st wedding anniversary.

I want to know one thing from Rep. Chisum. How much credit can the government take for your marriage lasting 51 years?

Just another reason why the government shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all. It is a religous institution, not a government institution. I can understand the government recognizing the marriage in terms of it being a contract between two consenting adults, but nothing more than that.

The responsibility for the success of the marriage fall on the two people in the marriage, not the government.