Here Are 5 Better Reasons Not to Like Rep. Pete Sessions

[TexasTowelie]

Last week, unless you had the good fortune of staying off the internet, you couldn't miss it. Dallas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions got asked about ending no-fault divorce in Texas, put his foot in his mouth and took all sorts of hell for it.

Sessions' comments, to be sure, are tone deaf. Answering the question, he tells a story that he ties to an unnamed series of crimes that happened in the Dallas area:

“Dallas County, a few years ago, went through a number of terrible shootings. And I gathered together, they were at the time Republican district judges, and I said ‘Guys, men, women, we’ve now had I think four or five shootings.’ One of them was from a big-time guy in Highland Park, who went and killed his wife, just gunned her down. And that was because the judge was unfair, and the woman was unfair. And she demanded something, and he was out. And it was frustration. So now we go through the court system. And unfortunately lives have to be lost and there has to be tragedy — there now is a better system.”

The congressman has been called out, repeatedly and vociferously, for saying that the Highland Park shooter killed his wife because the wife and the judge were unfair. Sessions blames the victim and another person for the crime committed by the man, he says. That's not right.

His larger point, however, is a good one. No-fault divorce — something many religious conservatives have a big problem with — allows for smoother divorce proceedings and decreased acrimony. In an elliptical way, Sessions is standing up for the rights of married people to divorce their spouses without having to justify themselves to a third party.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/5-better-reasons-to-hate-pete-sessions-10983200