Graduation Homemade Center Pieces

"Do not Divorce Us

. I think that marriage promises are often given without people knowing each other or even themselves very well, that they are given for reasons unspoken and dangerous search as a desire for emotional or financial security, that they are often broken as easily as they are given, and that people who actually take them seriously have endured a lot of unnecessary sorrow and pain because of it.

Still, we have the freedom to contract (party autonomy), and I agree with Alice Schwarzer, who said that while she dislikes the concept of civil marriage (for other reasons), equality demands that everybody be allowed to marry, provided both parties are consenting adults.

tablesaw further substantiated this claim in her great essey What Marriage Is , in which she maintained that one of the main ideas (if not THE idea) of marriage is to stabilize and protect a family.

The EKD actually supports this idea in its publication Mit Spannungen leben while at the same time denying homosexual couples the right to marry. I'll save the rant on that for later.

I am reiterating all this because shoeboxer4life in an open post pointed towards a video that serves to drive home this point:



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Imagine your vows, which you faithfully made, being declared null and void!

I have an acquaintance who got divorced from her first husband decades ago. Some time ago she married another guy. Because her first marriage had been valid under Catholic law, the only way she would have been able to get her second marriage licitly blessed by her church would have been to have the first one anulled. She refused to do that because, as she said, when she made that first marriage vow she MEANT it, and she would not have someone declare that the marriage they had HAD did not exist.

She has the right to choose this. Why should not other people be allowed the same choice?