An SMS poll conducted during Sunday's ANC Harapan debate showed 3,331 votes to scrap the bill compared to 3,077 votes to pass the bill. A separate online poll showed 539 votes for the passage of the bill and 659 against.
Harapan has discussed divorce bill and their critics won the poll about it. It shows that Filipinos do not want the divorce bill to be implemented in the society. They want to have a country that is pro-Christianity and anti-divorce. It is obvious that the Filipino community is not divorce friendly, but some of the Filipinos still voted for divorce to be legalized in the Philippines.
Critics of the bill won in the 2 polls with 52.46% of the vote compared to 47.54% supporting the bill. The results ran counter to a recent Social Weather Stations survey that showed 5 out of 10 Filipinos (50%) are now in favor of divorce, while 3 out of 10 (33%) are against.
The vote for anti divorce has been more than the opposition. This shows that a lot of Filipino people are still closed minded about divorce and its possible effects in the society and how it will greatly affect the Filipino people’s culture and efforts to be a Christian dominated country who hold firm on their beliefs as a Christian.
Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani said the bill is unconstitutional because the family is recognized by the State as “the foundation of the nation." He said marriage is sacred and is a gift from God.
He was speaking for divorce and how unconstitutional it was because the family is called “foundation of the nation” and the core of every Filipino’s values. The Philippines have been known to be a Christian dominated country which is very much likely to be all bible hugging and God loving, but statistics show that some Filipino people voted for divorce, this only means that the Filipinos should not be generalized as such.
“Ang divorce ay laban na laban sa ating Constitution. It requires a lot of imagination para sabihin mong nakaka-strengthen ng solidarity ng family ang paghiwalayin mo ang magkasama at bigyan mo sila ng pagkakataong mag-asawa ulit,” he said.
Divorce as it was discussed in the previous post, may strengthen Filipino people to be independent and to chain away from their despair. This is opposed by the spokesperson saying that divorce does not strengthen a marriage because it simply breaks a couple who vowed to Christ apart.
He added: "Ilang babae kaya ang papayag sa harap ng altar ay magpakasal at sasabihin ng asawa nila, ‘Sa totoo lang, mamahalin kita hanggang divorce lang’? Palagay ko, wala."
This will also affect the trust of the Filipino women. Women would not want to marry anymore. But isn’t it that if a person wants to marry the other person, divorce is simply out of the picture? Love beats divorce and I believe that it is possible to love more than to consider
divorce as a part of one’s marriage.
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