- Gay-rights advocates who opposed California's Proposition 8 --- which officially designated marriage as an institution between a man and a woman --- circulated a Ban Divorce in California petition, which asserted that divorce among heterosexual couples was a greater threat to marriage than gay marriage. The petition's unidentified creator states that a government that prohibits gays and lesbians from marrying should also prohibit heterosexuals from leaving the marriage contract they entered. "Turnabout is fair play," the petition states.
- FunnyorDie.com featured a video, "Protect Marriage, Protect Children, Prohibit Divorce," that shows several people --- including some who are gay, such as Bryan Safi, of Current TV's "That's Gay" segments on "InfoMania" --- reciting a petition that states, ironically, "We will continue to celebrate marriage as the union of husband and wife, not as a relationship between 'Party A' and 'Party B.'" However, the video eventually reveals its core message, stating that the petition responds --- point by point --- to ProtectMarriage.com's core, anti-gay message, but replaces anti-gay sentences with anti-heterosexual divorce sentences. A woman says, at the video's end, of Proposition 8, which the anti-gay marriage site largely supported: "When it passed, you told a group of Americans they are second-class citizens."
- In 2009, California resident John Marcotte aimed to affect change in the divorce-ban movement --- starting with a rally that attracted 50 people; building to a Facebook following that had more than 11,000 fans; and aiming, ultimately, to collect just under 700,000 signatures necessary to put a constitutional amendment prohibiting divorce on the agenda. Marcotte focused these efforts in the 2012 California Marriage Protection Act, a website devoted to divorce prohibition that includes several petition types and merchandise like T-shirts spreading the message.
- None of the United States bans divorce, and just a few countries, including the Philippines and Malta, do. Despite the satirical efforts of some gay-right advocates --- and in Marcotte's case, the borderline serious push for a ban --- a prohibition of marriage dissolution is unlikely.