Everyone needs to congratulate Henry King for finally freeing himself from a wife he’s tried to leave for nearly three decades.

In 1993, he first filed for divorce from Lynn King citing “cruel and inhumane
treatment.” Because a judge said there wasn’t enough evidence of that, the divorce didn’t go through.

Now you might think that trying to get a divorce might be a sign that this marriage is broken… but they chose to stayed married. At least that’s what Lynn wanted.

Lynn is a Pentecostal Christian who believes marriages must last until death because those vows were “promised before God.” Also, she says, the Bible forbids divorce. Henry is literally bound to her for life now.

He tried to divorce her again in 2016, years after state law changed to allow divorces for couples whose marriages were “irretrievably broken” for at least six months… but Lynn King challenged that as well. A legal battle dragged on for a while but the divorce was finally granted last year.

End of story? Of course not. Lynn then filed a lawsuit against the State of New York saying that allowing the divorce to go through violated her religious rights because it was forcing her to go against God’s wishes.

Now a judge has dismissed her claim, saying she doesn’t have standing. He said there’s no “constitutional right to remain married” and that her religious marriage (the spiritual side of things) is separate from her legal marriage (which can absolutely be dissolved).