The logic on divorce and gambling is that the State licenses and regulates the courts, the regulations under which they are carried out. “First, do no harm” should guide our future actions on the authority that we’ve delegated to the State.
There’s no reason to prevent our citizens from going where gambling is legal, but there’s simply no evidence that importing gambling to our State will be a good.
As our divorce laws stand, families may be unilaterally fractured. Children and possessions become the State’s to divide at the whim of one party to a contract. Why not limit “no fault” divorce to those where both parties agree and where there are no children involved? Where one spouse has committed fraud and aggression by breaking or wishing to break the contract of marriage, there is no recourse for the injured party other than to submit to an involuntary divorce.
You saw her comments, they speak for themselves. She believes in local control.
Texas already has a lottery, which is a form of gambling. That she is not hypocritical by opposing casino gambling which occurs minutes from the state line is a good thing. Simply moving to the other side of that line to Texas makes sense, as it does in many other states.
Typically, no fault divorces which are contested divorces are required to go to mediation by the court. A friend of mine who had several grounds for divorce recently went through the process and was essentially held hostage by his wife who ran up his legal fees by dragging out the process. He's saddled with her massive debts, she walks away clean while he offered to support the step kids financially. If anything, his ability to walk away should have been easier.
Being the morality police never works.
No morality police, just self governing citizens of our State.
Casino Gambling requires that the customer be at a disadvantage. No reason for the state to legalize fraud and aggression against our own citizens.
It shouldn’t be easy to unilaterally break any contract, especially one as fundamental as marriage.