A way of undermining the Constitution

THERE are individuals and groups who for reasons, motives, or causes of their own, are bent on subverting the intrinsic nature and trivializing the essential finalities  of marriage—in addition to undermining the core significance and inherent consequence of marriage in terms of the formation, care and affirmation of the family.   

In its substantive understanding and ontological consequences, marriage is not only a consummate union between a man and a woman but also a sanguine community between them and their children.  So it is that in clear and succinct language, honest-to-goodness marriage equals unity and indissolubility between an husband and a wife—until death does them part, with or without having co-created a family of their own.  This is the nature and substance, the connotations and consequences of marriage.

But for different personal reasons of their own, the aforesaid individuals and groups appear decided to change the nature and  significance, the finalities and consequences of marriage.  In essence, they want marriage to be not simply divisible but also soluble for personal causes they have, for individual options they make.  Why do they hate marriage for what it really is?  Why do they abhor marriage for what it truly is?  Why do they want to substitute marriage for something it is not?  Why do they want “Soluble Marriage” on account of this or that personal reason or cause? 

Is it because they are the pitiful products of failed marriages?  Is it because their own marriages are wrecks?  Is it because after all is said and done, they are in effect personally incapable of entering into  insoluble conjugal unions?  Is it because neither marriage nullity nor marriage annulment as provided by the Family Code of Philippines is enough for them in case of marriage failure on account of a given personality liability?  Is it because after all is said and done, what they in fact and in truth really desire is the institution of divorce in the Philippines.  Hence, more questions: 

What are the grounds for divorce?  Infidelity:  So a spouse commits it on purpose to get a divorce.  Violence:  So the husband or the wife kicks the other to obtain a divorce.  Abandonment:  So the husband or wife abandons the other to have a divorce.  And how many divorces may a husband or wife have, how many re-marriages may either or both of them enter into and break, and how many children will they hurt and/or make them hate their mothers and fathers?  So it is that in the USA, there is a well-known woman who had no less than nine divorces. Will Filipinos eventually break the record?

So categorically and officially provides nothing less than the Constitution of the Philippines:  “The State recognizes the Filipino family as the foundation of the Nation.  Accordingly, it shall strengthen its solidarity and actively promote its total development.”  (Art. XV, Sec. 1).  “Marriage, as an inviolable social institution, is the foundation of the family and shall be protected by the State.”  (Art. XV, Sec. 2).

Those in favor of the institution of divorce in the country should likewise have to undermine no less than the Philippine Constitution. (State Policies, Sec. 12)