Hoo-boy. What is going on in Idaho?

[ellid]

A state task force wants to repeal no-fault divorce and "encourage" mothers to stay home. At least one member of said task force publicly proclaimed that divorce is a way for Satan to undermine society.

I am so, so glad I don't live out there....

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Ah, Idaho. What can I say. Of all the Western states I've lived in, it's surely one of the craziest ... in its boring stolid way. First Larry Craig with his wide stance on secret gay sex, now yet another homeschooler and his overpopulating back-to-the-past fantasies. And it will all die away (under a thick carpet of denial and indifference).

Idaho is truly a place that cannot really be described or understood unless you live there. It's really rather a dull place to live, actually. This kind of church-mad craziness is just the Idaho equivalent of Mardi Gras, gay pride parades, those wonderful giant street fairs in New York... Instead of the kind of wild politics that get front-page headlines in the Wall Street Journal, Idaho gets... oh, proposals to prohibit bright colored crayons in case they give kids gay thoughts. (I'm just making that up, but it could happen! Nothing's too idiotic for Idaho legislators :-)