DES MOINES – Scarville legislator Tedd Gassman, a House Republican, has co-sponsored legislation that would ban at-will divorces between married people with children.
According to the bill, a party may petition for divorce only upon proof of any of five conditions when the welfare of any minor child may be affected by the “controversy”:
1. The other party has committed adultery.
2. The other party has committed a felony and has been 7 sentenced to imprisonment.
3. The other party has abandoned the matrimonial domicile for a period of one year or more and refuses to return.
4. The other party has physically or sexually abused the party seeking the order or dissolution or a child of one of the parties.
5. The parties have been living separate and apart continuously without reconciliation for a period of two years or more.
At a Monday press conference in Des Moines, Gassman said “it’s time to look out for the children, instead of constantly worrying about the adults. If my daughter and son-in-law would’ve had some time to work this out, we would have a much different situation today. And, umm, there’s a 16-year-old girl in this whole mix now. Guess what? What are the possibilities of her being more promiscuous? What are the possibilities of all these other things surrounding her life that a 16-year-old girl with hormones raging can get herself into?”
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OK, what happens if none of the items on his list occur? What if the couple decide they’ve simply grown apart and want to split up? Under this guys rules that would not be allowed! Forced marriage
I told you, we’re a just a stones throw from the middle ages.
I think the most important lesson we can learn from this scary sight is that we, as a people, must STOP ELECTING CRAZY PEOPLE. This fool needs to stop bitching about his family’s personal business out in public and GET TO WORK improving the state!
again with the name calling stupid. If you don’t agree with them you call them names. I may not always agree with Ted but I have known him most of my life and I still wouldn’t call him names.
maybe sick is right…this guy is crazy at best. A moron at worst. sick is just calling them as she see’s them
Like I said, I didn’t always agree with him but at least I was adult enough to not resort to name calling. hint hint
This reminds me of a push a few years back, of baby-boomers wanting to take control of their grandchildren from their kids.
That was pretty much by one lady named Kathy who has since died. Now that brings up another question. Are you Jeff, her son? Because his BRAIN is FRIED too.
That’s not always a negative thing. Someone has to be the voice of the children who have neglectful abusive parents. Grandkids don’t just belong to the parents. They are people in their own right with rights too and part of a blood line. They are the entire family unit’s responsibility.
As an Independent Conservative I just can not believe these guys. They just do not seem to learn. This kind of crap is what lost them the election and will lose them more if they don’t knock it off.
Lets put this bozo and that ignoramous filibasturd dumbazz in Washington yakking his stupid head off in a gunny sack and toss them in the Mississippi! Cons waste more time doing nothing yet expect to get paid for doing nothing.
Insane. This guy is insane.
But I LOVE how he threw his granddaughter under the bus! She’s liable to become MORE promiscuous? Ouch!
Methinks Old Gassbag needs to get back in the field and stop worrying about what goes on in people’s bedrooms.
Oh – and did you hear? He introduced another one today attempting to stop same sex marriage licenses from being issued until he and a handful of morons try and force the issue to a popular vote. In the document he introduced, he even threw in language saying that the supreme court can’t say anything about it!
Delusional? Insane? Drunk as a skunk? Dumb as dirt?
Yes.
Old Gassbag? I love it!
@sick – Just when I don’t think that with the world situation, people can’t get any dumber, here comes Mr. Gassman to prove me wrong. Hate it when that happens.
Add creeeeeeepy to that list. eeeeeew thank GOD I’m not his grand daughter.
Can you imagine? There’s gramps on You Tube, yakking about my sixteen year old sex life! ACK!
Boy is he pissed that his daughter and son-in-law got divorced, isn’t he?
Lesson to all republican children: Do NOT let elderly relatives run for office. They will shame you and attempt to legislate their loss of control over you.
What’s next, a bill to force kids to write thank you notes?
Son-in-law probably had big bucks and now daughter won’t get anymore of it and daddy’ll have to give her his stash when he dies. He is con you realize. They don’t like to part with their money unless you claim you’re a church. He even looks creepy.
Son-in-law likely had to leave out of embarassment most likely. Can just hear him now when someone asks him if that’s his ex dad-in-law.
“Gassman who? Never heard of the guy.” lol
@Sicka-Calm down. You will blow a gasket if you are not careful.
Beats blowing a point 8.
I thought one of the republican beliefs is to stay out of our business. Another prime example of right wing nuts wanting to turn the clocks back to the 1940’s and 50’s. There are many studies that say it is best for the children for parents to divorce rather than stay together “for the kids”.
This guy is a loon. HOWEVER…staying the course with not having the same ideals as you…AND DAMN PROUD OF IT, I’d say the ideals that most Americans and families had in the 40s and 50s are much better than they are today. Are you saying today’s mentality is better? Back then, the youth had respect for their elders and actually had good work ethic. Now, you Left Wing Nuts want today’s mentality where everyone owes you a handout. That’s what’s wrong with our country. I’d take the ideals of the 40s and 50s way before today’s Didn’t you grow up back then old man?
Obviously you didn’t or you wouldn’t be talking that smack. Men might have had it better but it sucked for women. And the worst acting kids nowdays are little cons.. They know mommy & daddy will bail their impudent asses out of the jams they get in. They don’t work. They live off mommy & daddy’s money or their partners.
Well I grew up then and I am here to say that things were most definitely NOT better then. The same ugly problems existed. Poverty, perversion, crime, abuse. But it was kept secret. We just didn’t talk about such things. But it was there. And very, very ugly.
Stop living in the past, get a grip on reality and wake up.
Well said sicka. From families to presidents every descretion was kept secret. There were good times but I wouldn’t say better. Kids in the 40’s/50’s are todays grandparents so in essence those kids of the that era hold some responsibility for the ethics of todays kids.