Keep the State Out of Marriage and Hand it Back to the Churches
By Hayden Lewis, Bournbrook Magazine:
Marriage in the modern world is in a particularly sorry state; and its death will soon be state sanctioned by the Conservative Party. The funeral service will be overseen by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill which will remove the ability to contest divorces and allow one party to simply issue ‘a statement of irretrievable breakdown’ that will constitute grounds for divorce in all circumstances. Those who believe marriage to be a useless piece of paper will be proven completely correct beyond all doubt when this Bill, effectively making it easier to get divorced than to be prosecuted for drug use, is introduced.
It baffles me that a party that calls itself ‘Conservative’ can support such an unconservative Bill that obliterates the foundation of conservative philosophy, the married family. The parliament website shows the sponsors of the Bill are both Conservative, Robert Buckland the secretary of state for Justice and Lord Keen of Elie the spokesperson for the ministry of Justice in the House of Lords.
I must confess myself to be utterly unsurprised that the so called ‘Conservative’ party has again revealed itself to be completely without principle or beliefs.
So while Boris Johnson and his cronies busy themselves by dancing on the grave of civilisation, what is a conservative to do? The first question is to ask whether the government should be meddling in the institution of marriage; after all it is government intervention that gave rise to the common belief that marriage is a worthless piece of paper.
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