[pnh102]

I still don't get why gay couples have to even bother getting a divorce if their marriage is not legal in the state in which they live to begin with. There's nothing stopping them from simply moving on with their lives since there was no legal marriage to begin with.

This should only be a problem in Massachusetts or any other state in which gay marriage is legal.

[Clock King]

It’s just another “back door” to the agenda. They know some states will NEVER recognize gay marriage; so instead of attacking it head on, attack it from another angle, gay divorce. If they can get the divorce recognized, then the state MUST recognize that a legal marriage took existed in the first place. Veeerrryy sneeky.

[Gay State Conservative]

You make an excellent point.Although I'm not a lawyer it seems to me that these attempts to get "divorced" might be a stealth plan to get some state or (Federal) judge outside of Mass to grant a "divorce",thus starting a process which,in the end,legalizes homosexual "marriage" by judicial fiat in that state.

Which is,essentially,what happened in Mass.

[Melas]

I still don't get why gay couples have to even bother getting a divorce if their marriage is not legal in the state in which they live to begin with. There's nothing stopping them from simply moving on with their lives since there was no legal marriage to begin with

One word: Assets. In Texas, we have what we call the $49 dollar divorce. It's not really $49, but rather a slang term for self-filing divorces with disputes over divisions of joint property. Usually there is no joint property. What you're describing above is a $49 divorce without the $49 worth of paperwork.

The problem arises when you have joint property that needs to be divided and both parties want:

The time share in Vail.

Raul the Pomeranian.

The Gucci bag in which Raul is carried.

Cher's greatest hits on vinyl.

Elton the anthology on CD.

Ellen a retrospective on DVD.

Melissa Etheridge live at the Hollywood Bowl on Blue-ray.

Mars pattern china (Homosexuals only).

Venus pattern china (Lesbians only).

Andy Warhol memorial phallic sconces from the metro collection.

The good vibrations cornucopia of semi-marital aids.

And most important of all...the video collection