Root: Divorces Will Now Triple
Conservative activist Wayne Allan Root says gay marriage will be a boon for divorce attorneys.
“Marriage is the most difficult thing in the world,” he said, “I’m talking to you as someone who has been married 24 years, marriage is so difficult that if you do not go to church every Sunday and your whole life isn’t built on a bedrock faith in God and you don’t have kids and your whole life isn’t built around those kids and none of that’s in place and you’re married, the odds of you staying married are close to zero. Divorces will now triple. Gays will never stay married. They just bought themselves the biggest bunch of unhappiness and legal bills that they could ever imagine.”
He added that the Supreme Court’s decision was also the “best thing that ever happened to the Republican Party” and “hands us the election” because candidates will not have to talk about marriage equality as much.
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William June 30th, 2015 at 23:23
He has a point.
alpacadaddy July 1st, 2015 at 13:10
… Lindsey sweetie, come in here… we need to talk!
Mike June 30th, 2015 at 23:51
First he pens an article claiming Roberts is being blackmailed, now this…
Somebody better check his meds.
whatthe46 June 30th, 2015 at 23:52
something is seriously wrong with this dude. that’s for damn sure.
labman57 July 1st, 2015 at 00:06
Seems as though Mr. Root is doing a lot of projecting.
Dwendt44 July 1st, 2015 at 00:12
I wonder how those Atheists have managed to stay married for all those years. I’ve known a few that have been together for over 40-50 years.
frambley1 July 1st, 2015 at 01:08
This guy is monumentally unhappy in his marriage, so he wishes that on everyone else. What a helpful person he is.
whatthe46 July 1st, 2015 at 01:18
that’s exactly what it sounds like to me.
Antigone July 1st, 2015 at 02:29
“Gays will never stay married”
Then please explain to us Mr Root why so many of these couples have been together (without the benefit of marriage) for 30 – 50 yrs.
Red Mann July 1st, 2015 at 19:27
That must mean that Trump, Gingrich, McCain, Limbaugh, etc must be gay since they can’t seem to stay married.
rg9rts July 1st, 2015 at 03:46
And the lawyers will dance all the way to the bank
bpollen July 1st, 2015 at 05:32
When straight marriages have around a 50% failure rate, you really don’t have any high ground on which to weep for the future of gay married couples. If Republicans would simply choose celibacy, we could compensate quite a bit for that divorce-lawyer bonanza!
alpacadaddy July 1st, 2015 at 13:08
True, and if the parents of these RWNJ’s had chosen celibacy then we would have much more intelligent political discourse!
Gindy51 July 1st, 2015 at 06:49
Never been to church while married for almost 30 years. I call BS on this dope. We spend our Sunday’s taking care of our land and picking up trash the church people toss out their car windows on the way to church (seen it).
causeican July 1st, 2015 at 07:15
45 years married here.
Chris July 1st, 2015 at 07:17
Two points:
“Where did i get my research? Why, the University of My Rectum.”
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My sincere sympathies to (if she exists), Mrs. Root. What a burden you must carry to be wed to a guy who apparently views his marriage as so onerous.
Larry Schmitt July 1st, 2015 at 13:38
Ah, yes, the world famous UMR, noted for their meticulous research. They’ve always had trouble keeping the lights on though.
BigDumbWhiteGuy July 1st, 2015 at 08:07
He might have a point if they had simply shut their cakeholes after the decision, but that’s not quite what happened, is it?
cwazycajun July 1st, 2015 at 10:58
well yes just like it was cruz and the tea party repub’s who went and shut down the govt….that was good for the republicons too
AnthonyLook July 1st, 2015 at 08:10
The Constitutional right for all Americans to marry– apparently will usher in floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, divorces (all predicted so far in less than four days since the Supreme Court affirmed the right). All manner of fear mongered calamity is to be ushered in by the bigoted, sexist, racist, fascist fundamentalist conservative fake god of these fake christians. Such hate these fake christians harbor in their dark souls.
cwazycajun July 1st, 2015 at 10:56
yep but it brings in the bucks and the nuts
anothertoothpick July 1st, 2015 at 08:28
It is becoming harder and harder to distinguish between American Christian evangelicalism and Islamic fundamentalism
Red Mann July 1st, 2015 at 19:24
What’s to distinguish?
fredoandme July 1st, 2015 at 09:17
my parents never, ever set foot in a church, not even to be married. they stayed comfortably married until he died 39 years later.
this guy is full of hogwash.
Budda July 1st, 2015 at 09:50
Mr. Root, you are an idiot.
alpacadaddy July 1st, 2015 at 13:04
‘Idiot’ would be an upgrade, which is not available for his model of stupid!
allison1050 July 1st, 2015 at 10:25
The odds of my 1st marriage were down to zero when I explained to that sob that he was going to have to show me the clause in his contract with the university stated that screwing his female students was fine…well he couldn’t show it to me. He did think that going to confession every Sat. and doing penance then going to Mass on Sun. absolved him and allowed him to do the same when Mon rolled around. Needless to say it wasn’t working for me. ;o)
Dwendt44 July 1st, 2015 at 12:02
You’d be surprised, or maybe not, at how many ‘good’ christians sew their wild oats on Saturday night then pray for crop failure on Sunday morning./s
allison1050 July 1st, 2015 at 12:08
In any event in the USA approx. half end in divorce.
tracey marie July 1st, 2015 at 13:20
Is that bagger math? 52%x3=156%
Larry Schmitt July 1st, 2015 at 13:36
A few statistics, please, dipstick, to back your ridiculous claim that “…if you do not go to church every Sunday and your whole life isn’t built on a bedrock faith in God and you don’t have kids … the odds of you staying married are close to zero.” Millions of people who go to church and have kids get divorced. And millions of people who don’t go to church and don’t have kids stay married. You can’t just make up a statement as if it were fact just because it coincides with what you believe. Well, you can, but we won’t let you get away with it.
Bunya July 1st, 2015 at 15:02
Maybe he means that straight people will think that, because same sex marriage is accepted in the eyes of the law, they’ll have to divorce their opposite sex partners and marry a same sex partner. Conservatives are pretty feeble minded, y’know.
wpadon July 1st, 2015 at 16:21
Are we sure this man does not predict the weather for a local TV station? It seams he is wrong on every point.