Hypocrisy 101: Lead Charge Against Gay Marriage, But Divorce Your Own Spouse

by Michael Jones · 2009-08-13 14:51:00 UTC
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Talk about irony.  Doug Manchester, one of the Proposition 8's biggest defenders and an advocate for traditional marriage, is doing a rather un-traditional thing by conservative standards: he's divorcing his spouse. Or make that, his wife is divorcing him, after 43 years of marriage.

Divorce happens of course.  But is there something extremely hypocritical at play when an ardent opponent of gay marriage - one who gives substantial amounts of money to defeat gay marriage at the ballot box - argues against same-sex marriage while severing his own marriage?

Even more dubious are some of the charges made by Doug Manchester's wife.  Among other things, Elizabeth Manchester accuses Doug of taking $100,000 out of their joint checking account, and also accuses him of stealing her mail.  Does that sound like behavior that's becoming of someone so dedicated to "the sanctity" of marriage?

Hell no.  Which means that Manchester now gets to join the club of people like Newt Gingrich, John McCain, and Rush Limbaugh who think that gays are the worst thing to happen to marriage, but who themselves have a history of divorce (and in the case of Gingrich and Limbaugh, at least, a history of divorce after divorce after divorce...). Is that hypocritical?  Sure is.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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