You evidently don't know conservative evangelical Protestant Christianity very well.
OF COURSE there are restrictions on divorce! The restrictions Jesus Himself gave, which were that it's only permitted in cases of adultery. (Matt. 19:1-11), "I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." (Jesus in vs. 9)
Most Protestants also add St. Paul's allowance for divorce and remarriage in the case of permanent abandonment too ( I Corinthians 7:15). Otherwise the common "we've grown apart" reasoning (not involving adultery) of the modern American divorce-culture is seen--by conservative evangelical Protestants--as simply wrong.
My question to D'S would be, who in the world has given you pastoral counseling on this--and what have they said? He's either gotten NO pastoral guidance....or BAD pastoral guidance....in any case it is BAD pastoring!
The timing really is coincidental--as World Magazine (a news magazine by and for evangelical Christians) is extremely conservative (and thicker, these days than either Time or Newsweek!), and no one can ever accuse Marvin Olasky for being in favor of Obama.
Please note - I am not saying Christ does not counsel against/ prohibit divorce. Or that it is not woven throughout the Bible. Nor I am not saying I went to counseling in the conservative Protestant/ Evangelical churches I attended and was in leadership in.
My pastors were very good men, very Biblical leaders, very well educationed, and I learned a tremendous amount about the Christian walk, about solid theology, about Jesus Christ.
You needn’t bother with the Scriptural references. I know that inside and out. I am only saying it was not taught/ emphasized from the pulpit.