[Just Saying] Let there be divorce

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[Just Saying] Let there be divorce
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Allowing divorce will not produce public injury. Its objective is to release spouses from a legally created situation no longer serving its purpose due to it being devoid of the considerations forming its basis: mutual love, respect, fidelity, and care.

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How about relevance? It is possible that a divorce bill will not be useful for majority of Filipinos. We like to imagine a Philippines where very few spouses desire to separate. This, however, is no reason to deny it to those few. Moreover, absolute divorce is not unconstitutional. When the constitutional provision stating that “marriage as an inviolable social institution” was being deliberated, the late Fr. Joaquin Bernas SJ, one of our greatest constitutionalists, directly asked Commissioner Chito Gascon, the sponsor of the said provision, if it prohibits or discourages absolute divorce. The categorical answer was “No.”

In fact, the Philippines permits Filipinos married to foreigners to get a divorce abroad recognizable by local courts. There is simply no reason denying this right to couples where both are Filipinos. The possibilities of failed marriages – of abuse, infidelity, abandonment – is not determined by citizenship. Why deny this remedy, and indirectly disincentivize marriage among our own citizens?, the oft quoted verse is Matthew 19:3-9: “what therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.

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