>>So anyone trying to leave an abusive spouse or a cheater will be SOL?<<
Yep.
I have no problem with that. God’s laws are above man’s. People would think twice about getting married. And those that did would hopefully understand that they are making a commitment before God and man that they are joining themself “until death” to another human being.
With true commitment comes responsibility, and risk.
The risk is significant, but with great risk comes great rewards.
Not much room for human error in your black and white world is their?
Biggest effect of outlawing divorce would be to make live-in couples and illegitimacy the norm. People who are married tend to work a lot harder at making a relationship work than cohabiting couples, which is much better if their are children involved. However, you aren’t leaving much of a way out for people in a marriage that is utterly beyond redemption, short of murder or spousal abandonment....
I don’t believe the government should be involved in the family unit. Could they possibly make it more difficult to get a divorce, or better yet, make it more difficult to marry? Absolutely. But to abolish divorce completely is absurd. I don’t think that’s a precendent anyone would want to set.
The couple will one day answer to God for their decisions, but they certainly shouldn’t be answering to the government.
I married a product of divorce and have seen the effects of it on my husband, even into adulthood. I have also seen the other side of it and “staying together for the kids”, which is just as unhealthy, especially if the parents show zero love and emotion towards each other. I’m not going to argue the emotional effects of divorce, though, as I live it everyday.
My wife and I tell the kids they don’t have to worry about us - divorce is not an option. Usually told after mom and dad get in an argument over something! But they see over half the kids in their class with divorced parents and they worry.
Some other parents just got divorced at school. My 12-year old daughter asked my wife. “So you know how you always say ‘divorce is not an option’? Do you pick that option when the minister marries you or when?” LOL!!!
(And yes honey - you do!)
This country is not a theocracy..
And let’s make everyone go to your church, attendance mandatory. Then they have to buy American cars. Then...well, do I need to say more.
Always dangerous to say “There ought to be a law...”
Plenty of govt involvement in private lives already, and you absolutely cannot legislate a revival.