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[TacticalFox88]

An Australian couple have vowed to get a divorce, ending their "sacred" ten year union, if the state allows same-sex couples to legally marry.

Nick Jensen and his wife Sarah believe widening the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples threatens the sacred nature of the union and leaves the door open to polygamy.

The Christian couple have been happily married for over a decade, have no intention of separating and hope to have more children. For all intents and purposes they have a healthy marriage.

"My wife and I, as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognise the government's regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnisation of same sex couples," said Jensen, who is director of the Lachlan Macquarie Institute, which partners with the Australian Christian Lobby to offer scholarships designed to develop a Christian worldview and foster leaders in government policy.

He also feared that recognising same-sex couples would mean that the definition of marriage could be expanded even further.

"Once you say that marriage is detached from children, [that it's] just about love, then when three people come to the state and say 'well we're all in love', then the state has no grounds, except unjust discrimination, to say why they can't get married," he said.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/christian...ex-marriage-is-legalised-20150610-ghl3o6.html

Bye bitch!

hahahaha

 

[jwk94]

Doesn't sound like they have a healthy marraiage if they want to divorce over something like this.

 

[Reset]

Why would anyone care if they got divorced. Why is it being reported by the news lol

 

[Mandelbo]

Better get the papers ready.

 

[BadWolf]

Hilarious, like anyone would give a shit.

 

[victreeb3l]

This is just the stupidest thing ever.

 

[Manu]

Do these people also believe that adopted children are not real children or something?

 

[SmithnCo]

Cool. Have fun with that.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

It's because they're both secretly gay, but neither one of them wants to end the arrangement unless they know for a fact that gay marriage is legal. It's actually very prudent!

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

idiots

 

[Pritchardo]

I'm sure this is Fifa's doing.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Good, I hope they do.

 

[Ray Wonder]

It's because they're both secretly gay, but neither one of them wants to end the arrangement unless they know for a fact that gay marriage is legal. It's actually very prudent!

M Night shamallama

 

[FuuRe]

Divorce is so normal and common that renders this stunt meaningless.

They could have aimed higher to put them on the map, like taking dumps on each other's chests and the like

 

[Featheredkitten]

Just like all those people who said they'd leave the country if Obama was elected...or reelected. All talk and bravado. They won't uproot their comfortable lives and arrangement.

 

[Walter White Walker]

If someone threatens something you don't care about, does it make a sound?

 

[Reverend Funk]

Well now there's no way gay marriage can be legalized with consequences like that.

 

[NimbusD]

Good for them. Just like gay people, they can do whatever they choose to do with their relationship.

 

[Marcus]

It's because they're both secretly gay, but neither one of them wants to end the arrangement unless they know for a fact that gay marriage is legal. It's actually very prudent!

bingo

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[Naughty_Doge]

No one gives a shit.

 

[Goro Majima]

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I feel like most churches would seriously disagree with this tactic.

 

[Clearos]

I agree with them. Every time a gay couple gets married my marriage suffers.....but only if the news tells me about the marriages otherwise I would have no idea.

 

[E the Shaggy]

"If gay marriage, which is destroying the institution of marriage, is legal, then we'll divorce, which is the legal destruction of institutional marriage!"

 

[Fury451]

Wut?

 

[Fuu]

Doesn't the same book of the bible (Leviticus) that condemns homosexuality also condemns divorce? Aren't both basically the same level of sin?

 

[Ferrio]

See gays getting married destroys traditional marriages!

 

[GuitarAtomik]

 

[LegendofLex]

"Once you say that marriage is detached from children"

My wife and I haven't had any kids, and don't plan to. Shouldn't this couple already be divorced, since I've already destroyed their definition of marriage?

 

[PJV3]

How fucking childish.

 

[Corpekata]

Well then they'll get to experience first hand the issues that come with living with a partner that you're not legally married to regarding rights and benefits.

 

[neogaffer1]

It's probably something where they think that making a vow like this will make people think more about gay rights and stop supporting gay marriage when in reality all it does is make people laugh at them. Bigots gonna bigot. Bet they're the same type of people who get upset and don't understand people whose end goal isn't to get married and have a family.

 

[uncredited male]

For all intents and purposes they have a healthy marriage.

I am going to need you to show your work article.

 

[J10]

 

[Omegasquash]

That just seems silly.

Oh well.

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Sometimes people really do make you wonder what is happening on this planet sometimes.

 

[FortuneFaded]

Proof that gay marriage affects straight marriage.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

shaking my head.

 

[Majine]

Score one for love.

 

[shadowkat]

Um, what? How does that make any sense?

 

[Chococat]

Not true Christians if they believe divorce isn't a sin. Also, many of the Bible heroes were polygamist (Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, etc).

 

[oreomunsta]

So, in order to combat the "slippery slope" that they see the legalization of same-sex marriage to be, this couple descends into a slippery slope themselves. K.

 

[Amory]

I love that someone finally made a G-A-F thread and it's not Florida.

Finally!

 

[hamchan]

Ha it'll happen eventually in Australia, so goodbye to their marriage.

 

[Krejlooc]

This is anti-logic.

 

[Siegcram]

smh.com seems about right

 

[PulseONE]

Oh no, whatever will I do if...uh...those two...get divorced

Life would be like...officially over.

 

[Shuggananas]

Nice. Let's hope they don't make any children too.

 

[Couleurs]

But don't they know that gay people getting married will lead to gay people getting divorced, so getting divorced themselves is basically like they're showing support for gay marriage?

 

[cameron]

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The Christian couple have been happily married for over a decade, have no intention of separating and hope to have more children.

I thought you're not supposed to have kids out of wedlock? If they get divorced, will they stop ruining the gene pool?