09-03-2015, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by beerptrol
Just think if those judges had refused to grant her divorce(s) do to their religious beliefs
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Funny you should say that...
A Tennessee Judge Is Refusing to Let a Straight Couple Get Divorced?Because of Gay Marriage
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When Thomas and Pamela Bumgardner decided to get divorced, they likely assumed the process would be straightforward. The Tennessee sexagenarians have no children and provided no reason why Chancery Court Judge Jeffrey Atherton shouldn?t grant their request. Yet Atherton ordered four days of testimony from the couple?then held that their marriage wasn?t ?irrevocably broken? and denied their divorce. His justification?
The conclusion reached by this Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces.
The high court, Atherton concluded, must explain ?when a marriage is no longer a marriage.? Until then, he contended, state courts cannot decide marriage and divorce cases.
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