Pro-poor, yet pro-wrong
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution.” (Philippine Constitution, Section 12).
Marriage is categorically not a mere contact that can be done away with at the instance of either or both parties therein. Marriage is definitely neither like using a car, getting rid of this thereafter in order to get a better looking one. Marriage is definitely an institution in the order of nature and thus recognized accordingly by the 1987 Philippine Constitution as nothing less than a State Policy.
Meantime, there is the provision of ab initio valid marriage that, however, rests voidable through subsequent annulment by post factum reasons — such as infidelity, violence, abandonment and psychological incapacity.
There is the ease of committing adultery, or the option to stage spousal violence, or the decision to abandon a marital partner, or the readiness to admit psychological incapacity — specifically and conveniently to obtain marriage annulment for a cost or but a whistle.
Furthermore, there is also the key question of how many marriages someone can enter into and subsequently annul — for any of the above cited grounds. Then, there is furthermore the big concern of how many homes can be broken, how many families can be abandoned by somebody through obtaining annulments one after another. Finally, on the ground, reality proves that anyone found guilty of infidelity, violence, abandonment or considered belabored by psychological incapacity, does not even meet the fundamental requirement for institutional marriage intents and purposes..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110127com6.html
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