The public deserves to know the contents of divorce proceedings? If it's a public official (or aspiring public official) I think it would only be useful to disclose such information if it revealed some legitimate corruption.
While the voyeur in me would love to see the guts of a future Clinton divorce, for example, I don't think I have a right to such personal information.
I disagree. It was NONE of the public's business to know about their divorce. Its an intimately personal matter. And for the morons in the media, I'd like to ask how they feel about THEIR divorce proceedings being made public? No human being could survive that kind of scrutiny. My sympathy is with the Ryans as a couple and their privacy has been violated for something completely specious and unrelated to the matter at hand. How Ryan's sex life with his wife affects his character as a person, I'd love to know. In a way, this disgraceful voyeurism is funny coming from the same people who told us Clinton's sex life was a private matter. When it comes to Republicans, there's an ugly double standard at work. That makes me outraged even though I don't like Ryan's handling of the situation.