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OMG! This group "Kids Against Divorce" is using the sympathy card to get government to interfere in one of the most personal decisions in your life. I am so disgusted with this on so many levels. You can help divorced kids in so many ways. THIS is not one of them! What a nightmare! I'm going to sit and listen to a government appointed psychologist teach me about marriage? This would make me move out of state , out of country if need be! YUCK!
1 posted on 01/23/2014 7:23:43 AM PST by T.O.K.
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To: T.O.K.

I see a big uptick in weddings in surrounding states.


2 posted on 01/23/2014 7:25:46 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: T.O.K.
"OMG! This group "Kids Against Divorce" is using the sympathy card to get government to interfere in one of the most personal decisions in your life."

Roger that. All this would do is encourage more couples to have kids without getting married in the first place.

3 posted on 01/23/2014 7:26:09 AM PST by circlecity
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To: T.O.K.

Premarital education classes - For the ever shrinking percentage of the population who bother with the formality of a marriage.


4 posted on 01/23/2014 7:30:37 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: T.O.K.

All should remember that once the sentient residents of Colorado exterminate Boulder and Denver, the state’s IQ will be raised by 20 points min, and consumption of Obama stimulants will be cut by a vast amount.


5 posted on 01/23/2014 7:32:40 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: T.O.K.

This needs an immediate challenge if passed. If the challenge would work, I couldn’t guess, courts being what they are.


6 posted on 01/23/2014 7:35:02 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: T.O.K.

Well, think of all of the jobs it will create for government appointed pyschologists... who will refer some cases for more intervention, get child-protective services involved, make those engaged couples register to vote, send them on to some community organizers to be sure they can sign up for their 0bamaphones.... it will have a huge ripple effect for free stuff programs.


7 posted on 01/23/2014 7:35:15 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: T.O.K.

Get rid of no-fault divorce.


8 posted on 01/23/2014 7:37:22 AM PST by struggle
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To: T.O.K.

Of course, I wouldn’t put anything past the citizens (and illegal alien voters) of this benighted nation.

But if I were a gambling man (which thankfully I am not), I would bet that this initiative won’t even win enough signatures to make it onto the ballot, let alone prevail in the election.


9 posted on 01/23/2014 7:37:38 AM PST by Maceman
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To: T.O.K.

What has happened to this once reliably RED state?

Gun control
Marijuana
Pre-Marital Classes

What’s next? Pre-baby making classes? Are you qualified to be a parent? Starting to sound like the Chicoms have invaded. Maybe Red Dawn is upon us afterall.


10 posted on 01/23/2014 7:43:46 AM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: T.O.K.

No no, we should use this to clobber the left with...

Maybe make all people who want to get married have to sit though long long classes and cover ALL of the STDs and HOW they are caught with an emphasis on the ones that get caught during “non-traditional sex”....

What would be more hilarious than having a Ghey Male couple have to sit through a long class about the documented health dangers and effect of anal “intercourse” on the human body....

But yeah, I agree with you we should not be interfering. I see this as an opportunity for government grifters to feather their own nest.


11 posted on 01/23/2014 7:44:20 AM PST by GraceG
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To: T.O.K.

so if you want to shack up... you don’t have to do anything, but if you want to get married you have to take a class?

why is there a war on marriage?


12 posted on 01/23/2014 7:47:12 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: T.O.K.

The State of Michigan thrust something like this upon me years ago.

When the AIDS epidemic really got rolling (and in a supreme effort to try and hide the fact that 99% of its victims were gay men), the State in it’s wisdom decreed that all of us hetero couples about to be married must attend a three-hour public health lecture on AIDS prevention.

I learned how to protect myself doing activities I never would have thought of in a million years, had it not been for the generosity of the taxpayers of Michigan.


13 posted on 01/23/2014 7:47:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: T.O.K.

This will never pass.

It’s like the proposed local ordinance in Concord, MA, which would have required that all cats be walked on leashes outside of the home. Right...


14 posted on 01/23/2014 7:47:49 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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One has to wonder if all this crap will backfire and start hurting Colorado’s tourism business? Or if people will just go their and hold their breath thru the dope-smoke and gun-grabber state while skiing and doing all the other things that bring millions of dollars in every year.


15 posted on 01/23/2014 7:50:11 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: T.O.K.

The Catholic Church has had a similar requirement for more than half a century.(Pre Cana Conferences) It does no harm and often opens the eyes of young soon to be wed people who are temporarily blinded by a severe hormone rush. That being said I do not believe it is any business of the state, church yes, state NO!


17 posted on 01/23/2014 7:52:19 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: T.O.K.

Is this class the same regardless of the sex pairing of the couples?

Same lessons for man-woman as man-man and woman-women?


20 posted on 01/23/2014 8:03:02 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: T.O.K.
This group "Kids Against Divorce" is using the sympathy card to get government to interfere in one of the most personal decisions in your life.

If you give government the power to regulate (read license) marriage than you cede to it the power to set conditions.
This is why people who are pushing for defining marriage legally are playing right into the hands of those who would legalize "homosexual marriage" — they are acknowledging the power of the government to regulate/define marriage by laws.

21 posted on 01/23/2014 8:06:25 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: T.O.K.

I heard that a percentage of people attending the class called off the wedding after taking it and hearing what their finance` had to say when presented with certain scenarios.


22 posted on 01/23/2014 8:07:05 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: T.O.K.

Homosexual partners will, of course, be exempt from these classes.


23 posted on 01/23/2014 8:20:30 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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27 posted on 01/23/2014 8:32:10 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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