Posted on 09/03/2015 2:18:26 PM PDT by VinL
A judge in Tennessee told a married couple seeking a divorce that he could not grant one for them, arguing that the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision left him unclear as to when a marriage ends.
"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," Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Atherton wrote when denying the divorce petition, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
He said that the Supreme Court needed to declare "when a marriage is no longer a marriage" for state courts to begin granting divorces, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
The couple — Thomas Bumgardner, 65, and his wife, Pamela, 61 — had petitioned for divorce because their marriage was "irretrievably broken."
LOL! Nice.
THIS one I like!
Civil disobedience by sane stable people. This should be fun.
Deft move ping
Now --- the Brits have noticed this --- the law can neither puzzle out what kind of jiggery-pokery shall be the constitutive act proper to marriage, not have any working definition of adultery.
It's ... it's whatever you say it is.
It's whatever you FEEL it is.
“I do not get this, why would people who asked so hard to be married demand a divorce a few years or so later?”
Some people do not ask so hard. They just fall into it.
Others are tricked by a person that hides his true behavior before marriage.
Thirteen years with a bad person can be a lifetime.
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