Posted on 12/16/2016 5:14:10 PM PST by marshmallow
Married couples in Italy will no longer have to promise to be faithful to each other, if a new bill is approved.
The proposed amendment to Italy's Civil Code would remove the word "fidelity" from Italian marriage contracts.
The promise not to cheat is a "cultural legacy from an outdated and obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights and duties of spouses", according to the senators who have signed the bill.
They cited a previous ruling from Italy's top court, which declared that judges could not legally place the blame for a marriage separation "on the mere failure to observe the duty of fidelity".
Instead, the other party has to prove that their spouse's infidelity led to the irreconcilable breakdown of the marriage.
The bill, which was presented to the Italian Senate last year and has now been passed to its Judiciary Committee, goes on to argue that there is an element of sexism in the current wording. It was originally included to refer to the woman's sexual fidelity, in order to determine whether children were "legitimate", they noted.
"Until not long ago, only the fidelity of the woman was sufficient to guarantee the 'legitimacy' of children," the bill notes, saying that since the "hateful" legal distinction between "legitimate" and "natural" children was scrapped in a 2012 ruling, there is no longer a need for the clause.
The senators assert that fidelity should not be thought of only in sexual terms, but also in terms of "trust and respect", and that while it was an "important value", it should not be up to the State to impose it by law.
References to fidelity and faithfulness were removed from Italy's civil unions bill which was passed earlier this year - a change which provoked outcry from some of the LGBT....
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So let me get this straight... we have to call things that aren’t marriages (e.g. homosexual partnerships) “marriage”, but now, the state refuse to support actual “marriages”, in essence converting marriage into a heterosexual partnership.
Dear Lord, save us from ourselves.
Since the homosexuals have a real problem fidelity is this is so they don’t have to worry about lawyers taking it all?
The actual point of marriage, the reason it is celebrated, seems to be disappearing. It’s now treated more as a contract that confers inheritance and hospital visitation benefits. Nothing more. That is sad.
Just some more of that road signs pointing to “Sodom and Gomorrah” thing.
The laws of the Church regarding the Sacrament of Matrimony cannot be changed. Even by Francis.
One has to wonder if this is being done to protect married Muslim men from recently empowered Muslim women. Why now?
If faithfulness isn’t implicit in committing to the person you love, then there’s no point in getting married. As long as we’re on the topic, IMHO faithfulness is not just about whether one or the other in a marriage cheats with another person. Withdrawing your emotional support and giving more of yourself to your friends or your job etc. are also ways that couples are not faithful to one another.
All three have been blown to smithereens, and the first, fatal act of cultural sabotage was contraception.
Other than for people who believe in the Sacrament of Matrimony and thus have committed their sexual union to the highest of sacred purposes, there is really no reason for secular persons to marry.
This is a society on its way out.
The successor society, already n its way in, is murmuring "Inshallah."
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Leni
What are you, some kind of rigid traditionalist???
I solemly swear not bring any hussies home, nor to stack the car more than once a month, apply for a job at least once a year, vote for other like minded vermon, so help me government ...
It’s almost as if they don’t want people to get married, with this continuous attack on everything it is.
Chillax. MG was being sarcastic.
People should not be making promises they have no intention of keeping, but nothing should PREVENT those who do make serious promises and pledges from announcing it up front.
After all, this is between yourself and God, and God expects undying allegiance. The exercise of free will, also accepts that you express the free will to go the right thing.
...DO the right thing.
Because that’s what everyone wants......a cheating spouse. Not.
Thanks, Frank.
As a bachelor who loves my motorcycle rides through Northern Italy and the Italian alps.... I appro...
I mean I find this terrible. Just terrible.
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