Scalia-loving Tennessee judge: Straight couples can’t divorce if same-sex couples can marry

[Liberal Veteran]

A local judge in Tennessee has refused to grant a divorce to a straight married couple, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage as one reason he cannot let the man and woman untie the knot.

Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Atherton denied the divorce petition last week, according to The Times Free Press, saying that the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage made it impossible for the state of Tennessee to determine what constitutes divorce.

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/scalia-loving-tennessee-judge-straight-couples-cant-divorce-if-same-sex-couples-can-marry/


There aren't enough facepalms in the world to register my exasperation with this.

On the other hand, YAY! Gay marriage causes lower divorce rate! I guess.

[Hortensis]

1. Trouble-mucking schmuck's term runs in 2022. Maybe the good people of TN will toss him out.

[treestar]

2. This does not make any sense

misuse of judicial power

[Jim Lane]

3. I think Kim Davis has found her fifth husband. (n/t)

[LibertyLover]

4. But only if he agrees to adopt her twins like husband #2 did after she married him

after divorcing husband #1, but who were fathered by husband #3. As someone said on another list about this woman - no wonder Kentucky family trees look like kudzu vines.