June 1, 2026, is when I plan to retire and move out of Oklahoma. Until then, I pray that our wonderful Oklahoma Legislature doesn’t take us too far off the deep end. After reading about some of the new bills that our legislators are proposing, I am keeping my fingers crossed….
The wonderful, delightful, and ever so judgmental Sally Kern, representative from central Oklahoma, has decided that it’s too easy to get a divorce. In her words, it’s easier to get a divorce than to get a car loan. Sally believes that couples aren’t doing enough to reconcile. So, to change that, she is proposing that divorces based on incompatibility not be allowed if the couple has been married over 10 years, have minor children, or one of the spouses objects. If that had been the law when I got divorced, I’d still be married to someone whom I dislike, I couldn’t trust, and I couldn’t be in the same room with for more than five minutes without getting into a vicious argument. Sally’s rationale is it is better for the children if the parents stay together. Ask my kids how good it was for them to be subjected to their parents arguing ad nauseum. Our constant arguing deeply scarred the children, as they all have issues relating to the breakup and the nastiness that will take many therapy sessions to overcome. Sometimes reconciliation is not the right answer. Why should a couple forced to be miserable and stay with someone they flat out do not like?
Sally did say that there would be exceptions made for adultery and abuse. So, it would take someone getting the living crap beat out of them before they can get a divorce? If Sally Kern thinks this is such a gerat idea, then someone should beat the living crap of out her. When you are in a bad relationship, you want to get away – quick! You don’t want to have to hang around until it is too late, and when you’ve had the living crap beat out of you, that is too late. As for the adultery? Well, we now know that my ex committed adultery back in 1992, except I was never able to definitively prove it, and the only people who knew would not admit to it. In my ex’s case, what incentive would there be to admit to such a transgression knowing that she would lose her gravy train?
Ah, but Sally is not alone in her, well, stupidity. Another of our erstwhile legislators has decided it is of the utmost importance for the schools to study the Old and New Testaments alongside Shakespeare and Hemingway in literature classes. If the Bible is “literature”, then why not the Quran? How about the books that weren’t included in the bible like the Apocryphal Books or the Coptic Gospels?
Yes, this is Oklahoma, where you can lose a VW in the potholes and where the population is barely literate. But hey, those things are unimportant as long as we live in a Taliban-type Christian state, right? If, God forbid, these stupid bills become law, you can rename us as Oklahomistan….
Only 5990 days until I retire….
