re: #82 iossarian

Completely agree on Edwards. The guy is a dickhead.

But I disagree on the broader point. If two fathers (for example) sought divorce, and one had been a lifelong castigator of single mothers as the bane of society, while the other had refrained from such condemnation, I would say that the former was at fault while the second was not.

Divorce is sad to the extent that it demonstrates the breakdown of a relationship but I don’t think there’s anything particularly sinful about it.

Well, we weren’t talking about the breakdown of a relationship leading to divorce. We were talking, I thought, about those who hold up an appearance of a solid relationship, when it isn’t. There is no good to be had within a family when two people try to maintain a facade that a relationship is solid and good when it isn’t. None.