Gregory B Adams

So why wouldn't you just throw your weight behind institutions where the divorce rate is the least and you have an ecclesiastical structure which can be appealed to to assist with that?

That's what makes no sense to me.

So let's start with a couple of things you said which are fundamentally untrue.

Most men are religious, in fact, including in this country.

Most of them.

Okay.

You can agree with that.

So here's the thing, though.

But Catholicism and Orthodoxy is growing rapidly.

And if it's the case that the ecclesiastical structure is already there, which it is,

If you're going to cohabitate with a woman, the thing that you're offering right now is common law marriage anyway, if there's cohabitation at all.

You're not protecting anybody from that.

At least under my model, it gives an ecclesiastical structure that's designed to prevent divorce by applying community pressure.

That was the way it was always done.

the application of community pressure within the confines of the woman's social circle.

Right now, do you agree with me, for instance, that many divorces happen because women like to yap?

So you get a freshly divorced woman and she's free.

You go, girl.

Girl power.

And she starts talking to her little friends and she starts telling them how liberating it is and how great it is and this and that.