The country's influential Catholic Church had thwarted all previous attempts, but the women pushing for this latest divorce legislation say prospects of it being accepted are better this time. ... Under the Philippines Family Code, only annulment restores a married couple to single status, allowing each to remarry.
The Philippine Catholic Church has been rejecting all kinds of propositions about divorce. Men usually are the ones who want divorce, but in the Philippines, it’s the women who want this bill to be legalized. This has been how they are ever since there has been a proposition about divorce. It is very unlikely because women usually think the other way around, which is forever and they usually believe in working things out. It makes me wonder how the women think nowadays. Maybe they’re traumatized? Maybe they’re scared? Maybe they are slapped by reality, reality that men are more liberated in a way that there is only little chance to find a man who can love unconditionally. It is unlikely to find a man who is faithful, who does not look at other women, and who does not abuse a relationship. Women are scared that they might be trapped in a marriage that is very abusive and very emotion consuming.
It's interesting that the Catholic church would oppose the legalization of divorce. Do they sincerely think that non-Catholics in the Philippines should be bound by Catholic doctrine? Perhaps American Catholics should ask their priests what they think about it — are the Catholic leaders in the Philippines wrong or not? Would the Catholic church support making divorce illegal in other places, like America?
One good point was raised in this forum which is should Catholics be bound by Catholic doctrine? Catholics should keep their values intact at the same time they should be living their lives the way they want it to be. Why is it that society dictates to us what to do? The Philippines is a Catholic country and is a very religious country which has been consistently using their values as a way of living their lives and they are greatly influenced by the Church.
It is ironic that the Roman Catholic prelates have a say in marriage, a practise which they abhor and do not practise. What do they really know about marriage? Are they in any position to have a say in the matter? Hypocrites!
This is a very good point by a man named Manny Aquino in the forum. He said that people who work for the Church is a part of a calling and one of which is chastity. Chastity is not participating in the holy sacrament of matrimony. They do not know a thing about marriage. They do not know anything about how marriage works, so how can they dictate to people what should be happening and what should they do about their lives? They never had any chance to experience marriage problems that is why they do not have a say on this bill.
The divorce bill should be legalized. I am for freedom and I am for pro-choice.
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