re: #28 Rightwingconspirator

Do they all fit that description?

Most of the people on the list are not fundamentalists, but they do align with fundamentalist causes and values in many cases. Ensign, the only Pentecostal in the Congress, is an exception. He is a full-blown holy roller.

Fundamentalists, in turn, definitely stigmatize divorce. 30 years ago, I was engaged to a really beautiful young teacher here in West Texas. It was my fault I didn’t marry her, and I regret that deeply, but opposition from her parents’ was also a factor, a big one. Her parents were fundamentalists. Her father was a well-known fundy theologian and writer in fact. They opposed the marriage because I was divorced. They accepted that the divorce was not my fault, and they believed I was justified in seeking it. Nevertheless, they insisted that it disqualified me from a further marriage as long as my first wife was still alive.
My ex-fiancee went on to marry a faithful church-going type who did not have this stigma. Ironically, they are now divorced. Sure enough, her now-aged parents insist that she cannot re-marry, even though she is 57 years old now.