Ban Divorce & Interracial Marriage

Rule: To be Con you must fully oppose my position, arguing that both divorce and interracial marriage should be legal. Reason Applied to Both: King Henry VIII embarked Britain on a bold social experiment with legalized divorce that eventually spread to her colonies and is now even embraced by most Catholics as acceptable. This changed the definition of marriage. Traditional marriage was 1 man, 1 woman, same race for life. They changed it then to 1 man, 1 woman, same race for life unless they get a divorce. Then, centuries down the road in the 1960s with Loving v. Virginia America embarked on a bold social experiment. Loving changed the definition of marriage to 1 man, 1 woman of any race for life unless divorced. People back then argued this would be a slippery slope to other deviant forms of sexuality in marriage, such as marrying your dog. As we can see from recent political developments they're right! Divorce lead to interracial marriage and then Interracial marriage turned out to open the floodgates for gay marriage, and now there are even people who argue that consentual incest & even incest marriage should be allowed. http://abcnews.go.com... People are marrying themselves! http://www.bbc.co.uk... People are marrying animals! http://www.msnbc.msn.com... Looking at the historical trend with the huge gap of time between the legalization of divorce and the legalization of interracial marriage, and now the short amount of time between the legalization of interracial marriage and the present when the nationwide legalization of gay marriage is nearly inevitable we can expect that these future developments such as incestuous marriage and human-animal marriage will come even faster. We must arrest and turn back this slippery slope now before it is too late! A Reason More Specific to Interracial Marriage: Furthermore, because of white racism opposite-race couples are more likely to be incompatible and get a divorce. http://isteve.blogspot.com... It clearly shows the difference in divorce rates is only significant between white/white couples and white/any other race couples. This shows that the main reason for divorce is unconscious racism in the white member of the couple, not necessarily in all divorce cases but in the ones making up the difference between the rates. It is unfortunate, but because white people are still racist we must ban interracial marriage to lower the divorce rate and protect children from the chaos of divorce. Banning interracial marriage is the kind, antiracist thing to do, because it protects minorities from having to suffer through a white racism-motivated divorce. A reason more specific to divorce: Divorce hurts families. Children need a mom and dad and they need structure. A divorce is very disruptive in the life of a child and can throw them into emotional turmoil. Furthermore it is often only one person in the marriage who wants to get a divorce, which is unfair to the other person who was essentially promised they would be together for life and may be left all alone in sadness and sorrow and possibly financial ruin and poverty as the result of a sudden and unexpected divorce. Marriage should be for life. Many people would argue that many married people don't really belong together, but if it was understood that marriage was for life and was unbreakable then maybe people would be more careful about getting married.