No-Fault Divorce Should Be Outlawed
I’d want to see no-fault divorce rejected, overturned.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 3 quotes from 2025 to 2026, from The Young Turks and NPR, each cited to the source.
When I conduct a marriage ceremony, the vows are traditional vows and the bride promises to love, honor, and obey. And the husband does not vow to obey his wife. The wife vows to obey her husband... If he makes a decision that goes contrary to her wishes, she should be submissive and obey. She should be a sweetheart about it. Yes... [Cenk Uygur: “In a Christian nation, would a divorce be allowed in that circumstance or no?”] Jesus teaches that divorce is lawful when there’s been adultery, when there’s been infidelity, and the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians teaches that divorce is permissible on grounds of desertion. So desertion and infidelity would be the two main criteria that would justify a biblical divorce.
The things that would change would be things that would be at the statutory [level]—some would be constitutional amendments or they might be dealt with other ways. I’d want to see abortion outlawed everywhere. I’d want to see Obergefell overturned. I’d want to see no-fault divorce rejected, overturned.
[Cenk Uygur: "But if a wife is just miserable because the husband's just making terrible decisions she can't stand, that's not one of those two things. She's going to have to suck it up."] Yeah. Yeah. And vice versa.