Australian couple’s hilarious threat: ‘We’ll divorce if gay marriage is legalised’

An Australian couple have posed on the cover of a paper in the nation’s capital to deliver a terrifying threat: If same-sex marriage is legalised in their country, they MAY get a divorce.

“My wife and I just celebrated our 10-year anniversary. But later this year, we may be getting a divorce,” says Nick Jensen, who poses with his wife Sarah on the front page of the Canberra City News, an independent publication distributed through the city.

“Well written, well read”… #SureJan

“The decision to divorce is not one we’ve taken lightly. And certainly, it’s not one that many will readily understand. And that’s because it’s not a traditional divorce.”

Jensen explains that the couple’s plan for divorce, should same-sex marriage be legalised, includes legally ending their marriage but continuing their life together – living together, having more children and referring to each other as husband and wife.

“Our view is that marriage is a fundamental order of creation. Part of God’s human history. Marriage is the union of a man and a woman before a community in the sight of God. And marriage of any couple is important to God regardless of whether that couple recognises God’s involvement or authority in it,” writes Jensen in the front-page article, which has attracted widespread condemnation and derision on social media.

The couple’s threat to legally end their marriage comes less than a fortnight after Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten introduced a bill to introduce same-sex marriage in the country. This after Australia recently fell behind yet more countries who’ve legalised gay marriage: Ireland, Greenland and Guam among the countries to have joined the 21st century.

No doubt Australia’s political leaders will now have to think long and hard about whether they should finally permit full marriage equality, given the potential havoc it could play on Nick and Sarah Jensen’s relationship. Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the Jensens?