{"id":5794,"date":"2009-09-23T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:11:40","slug":"the-gay-divorcee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-gay-divorcee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Divorcee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0025164\/\" target=\"_blank\">1934 version<\/a> has acquired an entirely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/699523\" target=\"_blank\">new meaning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trapped in a bad marriage?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, really. But you&#8217;ve got nothing on Larissa Chism and Tara Ranzy, a divorce-seeking Indiana couple doomed to live unhappily ever after and after and after by a legal Catch-22.<\/p>\n<p>Chism, a psychiatrist, and Ranzy, an educator, wed in Toronto in January 2005. In March of this year, they filed a divorce petition.<\/p>\n<p>In many respects, their case was rubber-stamp simple. They had no children; they had already divided their property; neither was pregnant. Unfortunately, an eagle-eyed court employee noticed the one complicating fact in their one-page joint submission: Larissa and Tara are both women&#8217;s names. Indiana does not grant or recognize same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p>And so, a court there ruled Sept. 4, Chism and Ranzy cannot end their marriage because their marriage does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Nor can they simply return to Toronto to obtain a quickie divorce here, as one prominent Indiana social conservative suggested to the Indianapolis Star. Ontario, like same-sex-marriage-granting Massachusetts, requires one spouse to be a resident for a year or more before a divorce can be approved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A perfect illustration of the chaos wrought by contemporary gender confusion; although if it had to happen to anyone, a psychiatrist and an educator seems fitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1934 version has acquired an entirely new meaning: Trapped in a bad marriage? Sorry, really. But you&#8217;ve got nothing on Larissa Chism and Tara Ranzy, a divorce-seeking Indiana couple doomed to live unhappily ever after and after and after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-gay-divorcee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}