Ga. Supreme Court Sponsors ‘Get Married, Stay Married’ Billboards

[GodlessBiker]

A Georgia Supreme Court commission is so concerned about the impact of broken families that it is sponsoring a dozen billboards throughout the state with the message “Get Married, Stay Married.”

Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears told the Fulton County Daily Report that she hopes the billboards will help bring down divorce and crime rates, and push fathers to stay involved in their children’s lives.

"It's our job to say to the legislature, and to the executive, 'We see and notice this,' " she told the publication. “We do more than just read cases. We see a lot of human devastation. It's my job to speak out."

Sears is promoting intact families despite her own divorce after 20 years of marriage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “It’s politically incorrect to say marriage has benefits,” she said. “Let’s not be afraid to say marriage is a good thing.”

For the rest of the article, go here: http://www.abajournal.com/news/ga._supreme_court_sponsors_get_married_stay_married_billboards/

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"Her own divorce after 20 years of marriage"!!!! Priceless!

This from a court that unanimously said gay people could not get married. What assholes.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Let's hear it for domestic abuse!

"You're married; you will stay married, no matter what."

[Solly Mack]

2. Divorce has its benefits as well...

Somebody sounds bitter...

[GodlessBiker]

8. LOL! Yes, she does sound bitter.

[onehandle]

3. We have huge divorce lawyer billboards around and outside Atlanta (mostly in GOP areas).

They advertise the promise of quick, uncontested divorces for $500 or less.

Big business here.

Strip clubs have billboards all over and outside town too (Atlanta is known nationally for our massive number of strip clubs).

Is there a connection?

[charlie]

4. "It’s politically incorrect to say marriage has benefits"

"Let’s not be afraid to say marriage is a good thing."

I smell a freeper. What unadulterated self-serving horseshit. Can't make a move without pretending she's under siege from an imaginary adversary.

[gollygee]

5. Oh yeah, I'm sure people who are thinking about getting divorced

will look up at a billboard and then say, "Oh wait! Maybe we shouldn't!" and stay married.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. Any court, especially a supreme court, should be an impartial arbiter.

Political or ethical campaigning is *not* the role of a court. Notions of right and wrong are for elected officials; a judge should deal solely in legal and illegal (and should be appointed rather than elected, for that reason).

[northernsoul]

7. Judicial Activism!

n/t

[enlightenment]

9. Goodness! I'm CHANGED, I tell you!

After a lifetime as a single, I will now rush right out and find a husband.

Presumably it doesn't matter if I want to get married or if I think I should or even if I choose the right person.

Damn it - that judge has said it and I'll obey . . .

*rolls eyes*

[AnnieBW]

10. Funded by Newt Gingrich?

Oy...