He doesn't want to outlaw divorce, he just wants to shake his head and tut-tut and shame people who get divorced, especially women.
He doesn't want to forbid out-of-wedlock birth (I don't know how you could do that, anyway, without resorting to abortion which he despises, but never mind; practicality is not generally a conservative strength) he just wants to tut-tut and shame women who go through it.
He doesn't want to outlaw remarriage, he just wants to tut-tut and shame people who do it. Without ever being called on it in public where angry brides and grooms could rip him a new one--he wants to act like a jerk without paying the social price of being considered a jerk, hence all this deniable language.
What he *does* want to do, is kind of dance around and hint that we should outlaw all these things to preserve wonderful, wonderful lifelong heterosexual monogamy, and in the process *actually* outlaw gay marriage, ostensibly for the same reason, so that's all fair, innit?
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Date: 2010-08-09 08:56 pm (UTC)He doesn't want to outlaw divorce, he just wants to shake his head and tut-tut and shame people who get divorced, especially women.
He doesn't want to forbid out-of-wedlock birth (I don't know how you could do that, anyway, without resorting to abortion which he despises, but never mind; practicality is not generally a conservative strength) he just wants to tut-tut and shame women who go through it.
He doesn't want to outlaw remarriage, he just wants to tut-tut and shame people who do it. Without ever being called on it in public where angry brides and grooms could rip him a new one--he wants to act like a jerk without paying the social price of being considered a jerk, hence all this deniable language.
What he *does* want to do, is kind of dance around and hint that we should outlaw all these things to preserve wonderful, wonderful lifelong heterosexual monogamy, and in the process *actually* outlaw gay marriage, ostensibly for the same reason, so that's all fair, innit?