[Looking for Diogenes]

The Bible considers all sex after a divorce to be adultery (except in the case of adultery)? Just where do you want to draw the moral line for these laws? Do you want to outlaw second marriages unless the previous spouse can be proven to have engaged in adultery? Is deciding questions like this the best way for our courts to spend their time?

Matthew 19:8-9
Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."

[carlo3b]

Whoa.. Quoting the Bible to me isn't going to advace these arguement one inch.. Religion is an honorable and loafty goal, but not one of mine.. Thanks just the same. Iwill however fight for your rights to worship your God in pease

[John O]

Do you want to outlaw second marriages unless the previous spouse can be proven to have engaged in adultery? Is deciding questions like this the best way for our courts to spend their time?

I'd take that. Actually I'd rather outlaw divorce except in cases of adultery or criminal conduct or abandonment. Divorce is a major problem and needs to be ended.

(A biblical case can be made for ending a marriage due to criminal conduct or abandonment. The NT gives us the right to let our unbelieving spouses leave. If they are committing criminal conduct (such as battery or assault) then obviously they are unbelieving. By commiting the conduct they have already left us in their hearts)