Legality of "Gay Marriage" vs Divorce and Infidelity

[Garyjohn2]

There is a lot of protests and political action being taken to denounce the legality of “Gay Marriage”, even in states where is already legal. I hope the truth prevails.

I am wondering why there isn’t a similar uproar or activism geared towards making divorce or infidelity in marriage illegal as well. These are also morally wrong and undermine the foundation of the family unit.

Especially infidelity…its something so simple and seemingly “black and white.” Why isn’t there a push to make this illegal, with consequences under the law? Are these things that different from the same-sex marriage issues?

Thanks for your thoughts and insights!

 

[Iron_Donkey]

In legalizing “gay marriage,” the government would be creating something immoral and putting it’s legal stamp of approval on what is evil.

In refraining from making infidelity illegal, the government is refraining from locking up people who do bad things.

Making immoral things illegal is not always required or a good thing, but creating immoral legal institutions is always bad.

Personally, I do think divorce should be harder to get. I’m not sure about legal penalties for infidelity - that makes me a bit nervous. But it should be clear that the government should not pass laws calling a bad thing good.

 

[7armyrugrats]

Although it is widely uninforced, infidelity is still listed in the uniformed code of military justice (UCMJ). I’ve often wondered why it isn’t illegal in the civilian world myself. Divorce should be limited, but there are legitimate reasons for divorce. No one should gave to stay with a cheating spouse, especially with so many STD’s around. And even worse, a violent spouse or a spouse who is mentally unstable. But this no fault divorce **** is ridiculous.

 

[fix]

There is a lot of protests and political action being taken to denounce the legality of “Gay Marriage”, even in states where is already legal. I hope the truth prevails.

I am wondering why there isn’t a similar uproar or activism geared towards making divorce or infidelity in marriage illegal as well. These are also morally wrong and undermine the foundation of the family unit.

Especially infidelity…its something so simple and seemingly “black and white.” Why isn’t there a push to make this illegal, with consequences under the law? Are these things that different from the same-sex marriage issues?

Thanks for your thoughts and insights!

Adultery is illegal in New York State. A woman was charged within the last three years.

Civil divorce is not always a moral offense.

Same sex marriage" is always a moral offense.

 

[markeverett49]

Same-sex couplings are a mockery of marriage. This is deplorable but not surprising: we’ve had decades now of ‘enlightened’ people arguing that childbirth is only incidentally / unfortunately related to sexual acts, and that means the point of sex is to feel good and of course no one way to feel good sexually is superior to any other way to feel good and that ‘moral judgments’ are out of place and that really, marriage is about steady sex and splitting the rent, so what is the difference between a male-male couple and a male-female couple?

Tragically, it is heterosexuals who are making this a reality. That so many women see ‘no difference’ between an act that might impregnate them and sodomy is a sign of how dark indeed our time has become.

 

[Francoist]

Gay ‘marriage’ is an abomination and a mockery of actual marriage. It is a grave rupture in the fabric of the social order to try to legislate that fiction into some form of existence.

Divorce and infidelity are things that damage something good. I do think that infidelity should be illegal and a punishable offense. Ideally, in a confessional Catholic state, divorce would be regulated too, unavailable unless the separation was approved by the Church.

But homosexual behavior ranks with murder, defrauding laborers and oppressing the poor as a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. It is too disruptive to be tolerated in any way.

 

[JohnTomHoc]

There is a lot of protests and political action being taken to denounce the legality of “Gay Marriage”, even in states where is already legal. I hope the truth prevails.

I am wondering why there isn’t a similar uproar or activism geared towards making divorce or infidelity in marriage illegal as well. These are also morally wrong and undermine the foundation of the family unit.

Especially infidelity…its something so simple and seemingly “black and white.” Why isn’t there a push to make this illegal, with consequences under the law? Are these things that different from the same-sex marriage issues?

Thanks for your thoughts and insights!

 The Church put up a great struggle against liberalized divorce laws. Benedict congratulated the people of Corsica during his pontificate (I think it was Corsica) for refusing to liberalize theirs.

I was only recently converted to the Church teaching precisely because it seemed to me that the state had already re-defined marriage to make it a temporary contract to be terminated at the will of the participants, one which may be repeated any number of times with any number of partners. It seemed illogical to complain that the state regarded all marriage as a dissoluble contract that those who wanted to make such a contract would be denied on the grounds that they were of the same sex.

It would help if Catholic activists on marriage would point out the hypocrisy of the multiply-married who pretend to defend marriage while living with their third or fourth spouse following divorces.

 

[JohnTomHoc]

Gay ‘marriage’ is an abomination and a mockery of actual marriage. It is a grave rupture in the fabric of the social order to try to legislate that fiction into some form of existence.

Divorce and infidelity are things that damage something good. I do think that infidelity should be illegal and a punishable offense. Ideally, in a confessional Catholic state, divorce would be regulated too, unavailable unless the separation was approved by the Church.

While I was growing up, divorce and remarriage still carried a very distinct social stigma; it was something decent people just didn’t do. It was a scandal. The divorced and remarried were among the first victims & victors in the sexual revolution – victims because they would no longer feel social disapprobation of their act, victors because they were no longer seen as horrific violators of the marriage covenant.

One of the things that people were angered by during Bl. John Paul’s pontificate was the re-institution of rigorous standards for annulments, which had been rubber-stamped by diocesan offices for many years. So the hierarchy got very serious about divorce, but there are still bishops and priests who have let it go.

It makes it all the more incumbent on husbands & wives to be living their vocations with true fidelity & making sure that their marriage is in fact part of their apostolate.