More Terrible Republican Ideas

[Content Note: Domestic violence sexuality regulating.]This past year, when covering Congressional Republicans' objections towards the reauthorization from the Violence Against Women Act, I wryly noted the GOP was keen to safeguard the sanctity of traditional domestic violence.Showing that once more the Republican Party is beyond parody, an invoice being considered through the Iowa condition House would "stop [married] parents of minor children from obtaining a 'no-fault' divorce" and would require married parents of minor children "to exhibit a spouse was responsible for infidelity, have been delivered to prison on the criminal offence conviction, had physically or sexually mistreated someone in the household, or had abandoned the household not less than annually.InchNo-fault divorce is really a critical tool for mistreated partners, and/or children being mistreated by one parent, but there's a segment from the population—insert a Venn diagram protecting homophobic conservatives and MRAs—that routinely mischaracterizes no-fault divorce like a mechanism of egregious envy preferred by capricious, guy-disliking, vengeful moms that do not worry about their kids. Therefore we get stupid Think about the kids! rationalizations for attempting to unwind a vital legal victory for mistreated ladies and children. (And males, too.)A 3-member subcommittee debated the balance today. Representative Tedd Gassman, a Republican from Scarville, stated he's worried about the negative impact divorce is wearing children."For me, it's the perfect time to look for the kids rather than constantly fretting about the grown ups," Gassman stated.Not to mention, what Gassman strategies by "look[ing] out for him or herInch is tasking fathers with regulating their daughters' sexuality, so that they don't become dirty sluts."This essentially is definitely an attempt on my small part to help keep fathers in your home,Inch Gassman stated. "I sincerely think that the household may be the first step toward this nation which nation goes the direction in our families. If our families split up, same goes with this nation."…Representative Gassman stated the problem is "near and dear" to his heart because his daughter and boy-in-law lately divorced, putting his daughter in danger.InchThere is a 16-year-old girl within this whole mix now. You know what? Do you know the options of her being more promiscuous?" Gassman stated. "Do you know the options of other things surrounding her existence that the 16-year-old girl, with the body's hormones raging, could possibly get herself into?"I'd be so thrilled basically were Gassman's daughter or daughter, hearing this blowhard justify an invoice that will abet abuse by openly talking about my marriage and/or sexuality. Which would be to say nothing from the horrendo framework that 16-year-old women "get themselves into" challenge with their "raging the body's hormones."Anyway. Many people spoke sense in Iowa in reaction for this absurd proposal:Rachel Scott from the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence told congress the alterations suggested frequently make houses a far more harmful place."One thing that you've seen with places where there's fault divorce could it be gets worse tension and conflict backward and forward people," Scott stated.Representative Marti Anderson, a Democrat from Des Moines who opposes the balance, stated the strain in her own childhood home survived eight years, until her parents divorced when fault needed to be proven."The stay-together time was very, very harmful to my loved ones,Inch stated Anderson — the earliest of 4 children, "and even though we are all grown ups now, I am unsure anybody have ever really become past that."Karl Schilling from the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance stated no-fault divorce would be a carefully crafted solution to cope with individuals type of problems.Bad Republicans haven't seen a carefully crafted solution they did not wish to annihilate the fuck from.