Somebody Come Get Ben Carson, Once Again Talking More Dangerous Nonsense
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Ben Carson is once again being Ben Carson and as he continues pushing his dangerous beliefs onto the masses. This time, it’s in the form of his new book “The Perilous Fight” released Tuesday. The infamous conservative, who has been touted as a potential VP pick for Donald Trump, says that it’s time to end no-fault divorce laws in the U.S.
“For the sake of families, we should enact legislation to remove or radically reduce incidences of no-fault divorce,” he writes. The first no-fault divorce law was signed in 1969 by Ronald Reagan when he was serving as governor of California.
It allowed for “irreconcilable differences” to be a sufficient reason to end a marriage without proving that misconduct—like domestic violence—took place. For some reason, Carson believes that this was a grave misstep when it comes to the institution, though it would make abuse victims much harder to leave their spouses.
Carson continues:
“The reason this matters is that no-fault divorce legally allows marriages to end much more quickly than in previous decades. When there are relatively few legal or financial consequences connected with divorce, it’s natural for people to gravitate toward that option when their marriage hits a rough patch. What those people often don’t consider, however, is the harm — both present and future — inflicted on their children once a divorce is finalized.”
Of course, it goes even more downhill from there. Carson, who served as the Trump administration’s secretary of housing and urban development, also believes there should be a national abortion ban. “What is needed is legislation that guarantees the right to life for all American citizens, including those still in the womb,” Carson states in the book.
“Therefore, we must be boldly vocal about saving our fellow human beings through the legislative process. They are counting on us!” Carson has been a staunch supporter of abortion and once likened women who terminate pregnancies to “slave owners.”
His rhetoric has always been awful—hopefully Carson’s thoughts will stay strictly on the page.
