Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after 38 years of marriage on “Biblical Grounds”
Money on the fact she probably found his Grindr account
https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-wife-divorce-affair-b50ad9782f9a89e017696ffa2c4d6679Open linkView original on lemmy.world145
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God says no divorces...
Henry the 8th was the one that said divorces were cool with God, probably because it was starting to look bad how many wives he was executing
God said no such thing.
The Roman Catholic Popes and cardinals are the ones who said "no divorce."
When Moses wrote down the law, the rule was was "ok, divorce if you must."
According to the Gospels, Jesus (God) appropriately said "divorce is bad, and leaving your wife for a younger model is just adultery with extra steps."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+19&version=NIV
(Matthew 19, the aforementioned gospel.)
https://www.insight.org/resources/article-library/individual/what-did-jesus-say-about-divorce
(A Texas pastor opining on the topic. A bit too anti-sex for my taste, but a fair sample of Texas conservative Christendom.)
First was divorced actually. The 2nd was accused of some weird shit, she was beheaded.
Technically annulled, but you were still way closer than I was going off memory:
https://www.historyhit.com/the-6-wives-of-henry-viii-in-order/
It is infinitely more likely that the stress of the campaign trail, opportunities to cheat, and competing demands of their separate ambitions would bring a couple to the brink of divorce than... this suggestion.
I don't understand why Texas would become competitive.
I think they are implying that the far-right Paxton would mobilize left-wing voters more than the not-quite-so-far-right Cornyn.
Hell, could be both.
The headline makes it sound like she just discovered that he's actually a swarm of locusts in a trenchcoat or something. I mean, that would explain a lot, but still
Look up the word corrupt in the dictionary and it's just a picture of Ken Paxton
Also listed under the definition of, Horror and Nightmare. Just a helpful cross reference.
She stuck with him through the corruption and the cheating.
"Biblical grounds."
If there was a God, Paxton would have been struck by lightning a long time ago.
Oh, okay.
That's personal. Why politicize it?
Hot take, I know.
Because it’s probably lies. Something else is going on I mean, they’ve been together for a long time and scratched each others political backs. He helped to get her a seat in the Senate so they could continue helping each other politically. And only now she’s going to divorce him? I doubt it has anything to do with him cheating on her. Read her Wikipedia entry for fun stuff like…
“In February 2019, Paxton introduced Senate Bill 860, which would grant her husband the power to issue exemptions from securities regulations.”
“When Paxton declined to recuse herself from the trial, she was barred by the Texas Senate from voting on her husband's impeachment.”