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Judge, Please Don’t Strike That Gavel ... On My Marriage

Judith B= rumbaugh is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Adrian College with a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Economics, English and Home Economics; a Phi Kappa Phi graduat= e of the University of Georgia with a Master of Home Economics in Clothing and Textiles and an honor graduate of Nova University with a Master of Business Administration and an International specialization.

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Mrs. Brumbaugh is the proud mom of a son and daughter-in-law, owners of a = Colorado ski shop, and a daughter who is a vice-president of a major car rental comp= any.

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Judith i= s a professional educator having taught on the high school, community college, college and university levels. For the last several years, her focus has been within the ministry she founded,= Restoration of the Family, Inc., teaching seminars and other instructional formats, including Lunch N Learns, Women’s Bible studies and family seminars o= n a wide range of topics. She rea= ches families world wide through her many publications on marriage-related subject matters and other family issues. For ten years, she wrote and publi= shed a newsletter, Restoration Report, designed to strengthen and rebuild families and has counseled with individuals and couples. She has been a guest on several na= tional and local radio and TV programs. &nbs= p;

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The focu= s of Judith’s writings, God’s perspective on marriage, has been taug= ht to her not only by the Holy Spirit but also through God’s providential circumstances. This began whe= n her husband left their home. When= asked to sign a divorce decree that said she was no longer married, Judith refused and was evicted from her home, having to leave her children and family asse= ts with her husband. Through much pain and agony, she chose to uphold God̵= 7;s standard to “let not man put asunder” (Mark 10:9) and be= gan a six-year process of writing her own legal briefs to defend the permanence= of marriage from both the religious and constitutional points of view. She painstakingly documented legal precedents showing that such a decree violated not only God’s law but also the U.S. Constitution.

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As a lay= person without formal legal training, Judith has had the rare experience of writing two cases that were docketed before the United States Supreme Court. She also introduced a bill to amen= d the No-fault divorce law and spoke before the Florida House of Representatives = and Senate in defense of her bill.

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Her emot= ional turmoil brought her from a state of despair in which she asked God to take = her life to seeing Him remold the broken pieces of clay into a vessel through w= hich He pours compassion and strict adherence to Biblical precepts as she minist= ers to others. The love that her husband has refused to return has been reshaped into a ministry that has reached out to hurting families in several countries around the world.

Judith believes, lives, and teaches what Jesus proclaims regarding one-flesh marri= ages: “And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh” (Mark 10:8) as she prays and intercedes for= her husband, waiting for him to return. She can teach these principles for unconditional, unilateral love wi= th credibility because she has practiced them since 1979. She understands the price one may = be required to pay in terms of personal pain, financial struggles, and verbal attacks that accompany such a stand.

Judith&#= 8217;s most recent book, Judge, Please Don’t Strike That Gavel ... On My Marriage, could just as aptly be called “The Court-Ship of Judith,” as it describes the author’s frustrating and painful six-year journey from her Florida kitchen to the United States Supreme Court. In a page-turning acco= unt, this book tells how she set out to overturn Florida’s insidious No-fault div= orce law—our nation’s legal run-away-train. Moreover, it details how the judic= ial system empowers those who want to walk away from a “contract.” =

She was court-ordered from her home in exchange to “broker” her constitutional right to a court hearing.&n= bsp; With a few possessions in cardboard boxes, including what was to bec= ome her most important weapon–her typewriter, she began her nomadic journ= ey to show how divorce has impacted and devastated families and society in general. Her book brings to l= ight the fallacy and illegality of irre= concilable differences as grounds for the state’s unilateral legal dissoluti= on of a marriage.