“Want to get married?”

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
“Want to get married?”

A look at what “covenant marriage” is all about

Note: Presently, only Arizona, Arkansas and Louisiana in the USA have covenant marriage laws. Americans who are residents of other states are however allowed to avail of these laws.

This article discusses [1] what a covenant marriage law is; [2] Philippine laws on marriage; [3] divorce and remarriage for Filipino citizens; [4] covenant marriage declaration and covenant marriage vows; [5] how fundamentalist and evangelical churches in the US started the covenant marriage movement; and [6] my proposal for a covenant marriage law in the Philippines.

Other topics I will discuss in this post are [7] the dreary statistics on divorce and live-in relationships; [8] 2,000 weddings daily in the Philippines; 95% of today’s single adults still deeply desire to be married; and [9] Filipinos are bound by our laws, wherever they may be in the world.

G. K. Chesterton once said, “When a man says I love you to a woman, what he really means is that, of all the millions of women in the world, I choose you.” This is such romantic stuff that a lot of you might think this article will be all about some mushy stuff. But truth is, we will be discussing some rather heavy legal stuff about marriage which could make you think twice before proposing or saying “I do.”



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