Juxtaposition of RH Bill and Divorce Bill

Is Divorce Bill worse than RH Bill?

            According to CBCP (Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines), the legalization of the Divorce bill is worse than the RH Bill itself. According to them, “If we compare the divorce and RH bills, divorce directly destroys what is good, and that is the marriage bond, while the RH bill does the same but indirectly,” said CBCP legal counsel Jo Imbong. They are clearly not for the Divorce bill and they think that it will truly affect the Philippines As I juxtapose the RH Bill and the Divorce Bill, I’d like to start off with a question. Are these bills really acts of destruction?

            The RH Bill legalizes contraceptives that is the reason why it was described as indirectly destroying what is so called “Catholic.” It goes through a medium where in people tend to think that it is not connected at all to the Church but it actually is. It prevents life and the Church is pro-life. It does not allow abortion, but it allows contraceptives which is probably the same. It is life being hindered by a certain thing, while divorce is a complete destruction of the holy sacrament of marriage. Sacraments are meant to be kept as holy and couples who undergo the sacrament of matrimony are obliged to stick with their spouses until the end of time. It does not matter what happens, the sacrament of matrimony makes it clear for everyone that couples are meant to last forever under any circumstances. A lot of people have been divorced and the Philippines is one of the countries who used to make divorce illegal. Now, it has already opened its eyes to the Divorce Bill, therefore, the Philippines has opened its eyes to the reality that divorce is a choice. RH Bill, as it has been discussed has been legalized in the country for more than a year now. It allows the use of condoms and it has allowed the use of other contraceptives as well like birth control pills and the like. For the Filipino Church, divorce bill is not a priority, it is solely an option for Filipinos and it is purely immoral, But for the Filipino people, it is not a priority but it is purely an option and it is not detrimental to the Filipino law, but it depends on the people if they want to result to divorce or not. This has been a probable outcome of the Filipino people being very much adept to the Western culture. The Filipinos has been consistently and constantly being colonized by the Americans regarding their ways and the way of living, If it’s okay for the other countries, why not here? Some people are for the RH Bill, while not being fully okay with the Divorce Bill. Some people are okay with the divorce bill, but not okay with the RH Bill. This is very much considerable by the government because this country is purely democratic. Democratic in a way that the government listens to the people more than it listens to the Church.