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SACRAMENTO, CA - A Sacramento man has begun a grassroots campaign to ban divorce in California.
John Marcotte, 37, has taken the first steps in the initiative process to qualify the 2010 California Marriage Protection Act for a statewide vote sometime next year.
Marcotte said he was inspired by last year's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
"It's actually what I think is a logical extension of Prop 8, which was the California Marriage Protection Act. (My initiative) would protect traditional marriages by banning divorce," he explained.
Marcotte submitted the proposed title and summary to the California Attorney General Sept. 1, and said a volunteer network is standing by to collect petition signatures once the language is formally approved.
The campaign's Web site shows a couple held together by a chain with the caption "You said 'till death do us part. You're not dead yet." The site has attracted so much attention Marcotte was forced to switch servers Friday following a series of crashes.
Marcotte is a satirist and commentator who has engineered a number of harmless social pranks. In 2006, he and a group of friends placed a giant pair of Groucho glasses on a statue at a Sacramento retail center.
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The married father of two refuses to say on the record whether the proposed divorce ban is another one of his pranks."It hurts that you would ask me that," he said with just the slightest hint of a grin.
by George Warren, GWarren@news10.net
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