“The State
recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the
family as a basic autonomous social institution.” (Article 2, Section 12)
Let it be formally and
expressly said that while someone must be good for something, not everyone however
is fit for marriage intents and purposes. This is a down-to-earth reality that
is squarely premised on the inherent nature of and obligations intrinsic to
marriage—such as the requirements of mental composition, emotional constitution
and physical make-up of the concrete man and/or woman concerned. One thing is the plain desire of getting
married but definitely something else is to have the fitness, the capacity or
aptitude for getting married.
It is understandable wherefore
that more and more couples do not get married at all—but simply unite and
separate at will. In fact, more and more married men and women get married and
eventually come to part ways at will—with or without having children. Thus it is too that more and more children
from “broken families” become confused, angry and/or bitter even as they grow
in years and realize their predicament of growing without the parenting
presence of their fathers and/or mothers.
And yet, there are individuals
who furthermore even want to introduce and legalize divorce in the country—as if
the fact of divorce and the divorce mentality would promote the right understanding
and proper living of the reality of marriage.
The truth of the matter is that divorce promotes divorce just as the
possibility of divorce already weakens the resolve to get married for a
lifetime—in accord with their own human dignity and pursuant to the inherent
rights of the children born of their union.
Divorce is not merely a direct
contradiction of the standard Marriage Vows, but also a standing
contradiction
of the Family Code of the Philippines and furthermore a blatant
contradiction
of the Constitution of the Philippines. Hence, Filipinos who want
divorce
introduced and legalized in the country, say but one and the same
thing: Change the working of the Marriage Vows! Change the Philippine
Constitution! Change
the Family Code of the Philippines! How
convenient! How gross!
Thus it is that in the context
of a divorce provision, the constitutional principle of the “sanctity of family
life” is but a big joke. That the above
likewise constitutional resolve to “protect and strengthen the family” is
simply a big lie. And that the equally
constitutional consideration of the family as a “basic autonomous social
institution” is but a blatant farce.
What a pity! What a disaster!
source: http://www.ovc.blogspot.com
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