I'm actually not convinced no-fault divorce is consistent with libertarianism.
You're a Libertarian? (the things we learn about a disciple of secular humanists Ron Paul, Murray Rothbard and atheist Walter Block).
I could easily be convinced that it isn't, at least if one party wants to keep the marriage together.
Because trying to convince a 20 year old Libertarian who just recently moved out of mommy and daddy's house for the first time in his life what is right and what is wrong is what this thread is all about.
If two parties agree to a contract of "till death do us part" I'm not sure one person can just unilaterally drop out of that contract because they feel like it. I'd actually be inclined to say they could not do so.
Of course, from a Christian POV, if the partner is an unbeliever, the Bible says we're supposed to let them go anyway. Which would be inconsistent with trying to lobby for laws against it, IMO.
I don't really like using force to solve these problems. I'd rather solve them through persuasion.
Obviously you still don't know how important the institution of marriage is to a society (for those of you that still don't know, review part 2's segment on marriage to see numerous articles explaining how the institution of marriage is invaluable to society).
I see that some of the links that I used in part 1's most important post are disabled.
The following article shows what happened to our society when California Governor Ronald Reagan signed legislation allowing no fault divorce:
The Evolution of Divorce
In 1969, Governor Ronald Reagan of California made what he later admitted was one of the biggest mistakes of his political life. Seeking to eliminate the strife and deception often associated with the legal regime of fault-based divorce, Reagan signed the nation's first no-fault divorce bill. The new law eliminated the need for couples to fabricate spousal wrongdoing in pursuit of a divorce;...But no-fault divorce also gutted marriage of its legal power to bind husband and wife, allowing one spouse to dissolve a marriage for any reason — or for no reason at all.
In the decade and a half that followed, virtually every state in the Union followed California's lead and enacted a no-fault divorce law of its own. This legal transformation was only one of the more visible signs of the divorce revolution then sweeping the United States: From 1960 to 1980, the divorce rate more than doubled — from 9.2 divorces per 1,000 married women to 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women. This meant that while less than 20% of couples who married in 1950 ended up divorced, about 50% of couples who married in 1970 did. And approximately half of the children born to married parents in the 1970s saw their parents part, compared to only about 11% of those born in the 1950s...
Read more: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce
No fault divorce has brought us single parent/fatherless homes, where children often times turn to drugs, alcohol, crime and (as seen in part 2's most important post) dysfunctional sexual activities.
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3393262&postcount=17
Have your sexual anarchist comrade GFR7 tell you how important the institution of marriage is to a society and how devastating it's been to one of the 3 institutions that God ordained for the governance of man (the Family; the Church and Civil Government being the other two) once unrighteous laws allowed it to dissolve...
for any reason — or for no reason at all.