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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[stasia]

What the ... That's outrageous. And just plain backwards!

*hides from the Midwest*

Stasia

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a native Northwesterner... Idaho is always a little crazy, but that's scary even for them. It's times like now when I wish we could just cut off the west coast at the mountains, form our own country, and be done with it. We can keep our alliance with the East coast. I like them. I just don't like a lot of the people just the other side of us. :P

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I know there's a group in Virginia who wants the same thing.

[slashpine.livejournal.com]

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 :-)

[kamion.livejournal.com]

or as we should say in plain Dutch

" Vrouw! Uw recht is het aanrecht!"
Woman! your right is the kitchensink

Neanderthals!! As if in the majority of case a working woman not already is taking care of the household too, without much support of the husband.

Nitpick

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is outrageous and backwards...but Idaho is not in the Midwest :-)

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I have to hurl now.

Sorry, okay, I'm done. Now...are these groups getting more press because the mainstream is becoming adjusted to working families and so forth thus making these groups more "fringe" or are these groups really gaining support? The media makes it hard to tell. But if it's the latter, I'm skeered.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

At least not all of the law makers there are so batshit crazy.

One side of my family's from Idaho, and half of them still live there -- not everyone in the state is thus benighted. Really. My grandmother did various church-women-lobbying group stuff that was genuinely pro-women for years.

[prince-hring.livejournal.com]

They hold up 1950 as the benchmark.

Nobody seems to be recalling that the lifestyle of 1950 (the birth of the so-called "nuclear family") was fabricated from whole cloth by economists in the U.S. to provide a wider consumer base for post-war industrialization.

Prior to the war, the "extended family" was the norm. This government-encouraged breakup of the extended family into smaller nucleated units was not some natural evolution of the family, but a designed and planned assault on the status quo.

Now, the legislators are regarding this artifice as though it were some sort of holy grail of normalcy.

Argh!

Those who do not study history ...

[briony530.livejournal.com]

While I differ with you on one or two minor points, I'm right there with ya! It was ONE GENERATION! And as soon as they grew up the canned it all!

[xrian.livejournal.com]

I know people like this, and some of them are people I love dearly. But they firmly believe that in their youth there WAS no street crime, no drugs, no child molesters, no lesbians or gays, no pregnancies outside of marriage, no divorce, no adultery and no abortions -- simply because all these things were so thoroughly hidden that THEY never saw them.