The Death of the Institution of Marriage Begins With Divorce

I managed to stumble on to this video while trawling the Inter Webs. Its a video calling for people to sign a petition banning divorce.

Considering the fact that the website is called "funny or die", this video was meant to be a spoof mocking those who voted for Prop 8 banning gay marriages in California. It is a reductio ad absurdum argument, similar to the slippery-slope arguments used against gay marriage. (e.g. Gay marriage will lead to polygamy, etc.) The hope is that people will find banning divorce to be absurd, and therefore banning gay marriage would be absurd.

The problem is that while the gay marriage people are trying their hardest to distance themselves from polygamists and "zoophiles", those who wish to prevent gay marriage in principle agree with the premise presented in this video. (There goes the absurdum part...)  Somebody ought to do something about divorce.

The logic of the video is this:

Gay marriage is bad for society, children and family.
Divorce is bad for society, children and family.
Divorce may be even worse.
Let's ban divorce! (Hah, like you hypocritical breeders will ban divorce!)

Funny part is, I agree with them. (Except with the "read between the lines" subtext.) If those in the US are serious about protecting the family, they ought to ban divorce. At the very least, they ought to ban divorce's most malicious incarnation: "no-fault" divorce. 

Divorce destroys families and leaves kids to play with the broken pieces of emotional glass. The backward slide of the institution of marriage in the West began with the widespread acceptance of divorce (coinciding with the widespread acceptance of contraception). Once you've de-sacralized the union (no-fault divorce) as much as you've de-sacralized the unitive act (contraception), then there is no incentive to remain in the union or to treat the act as anything other than playful recreation. This is the sort of thing that destroys families, frays communities, and ruins nations and empires. The West will be destroyed, not from without, but from within, when it refuses to make heirs for its traditions.

Heck, the only reason the homosexual lobby even wants marriage is because they've seen the wreckage and thought, "if all this marriage stuff is just that, why can't we have it too?"

The West owes the institution a hell of a lot more than this. Banning gay marriage is a measure that addresses but one symptom. They must strike at the core.

Ban divorce. If possible, ban contraception too.

Personally, I'm glad I live in one of only two countries in the world that does not recognize divorce. However, with a government bill encouraging contraception on the way (contraception and divorce and lifelong buddies), I fear a divorce law may be imminent. There have already been dangerously close challenges to the status quo in the past.

Ora pro nobis.