Why should marriage last forever?

Until death do us part, or until the contract is up? Mexico City has been developing the thought of marriage licences with a time limit on them. Living in this world today where the divorce rate is 50%, this new law of marriage contracts would certainly help a lot of people in unhappy marriages out, but then where does the true meaning of matrimony go? Assemblyman Leonel Luna is all for these new marriage laws, he believes that it will take the stress and depression out of divorce. But what happens when your wife or husband decides that they do not want to renew the marriage licence? That is basically divorce, and that would cause the same amount of pain and suffering as divorce would. I one hundred percent agree with the Catholic Churches view on these new ideas, "This reform is absurd. It contradicts the nature of marriage. It is another one of these electoral theatrics the assembly tends to do that are irresponsible and immoral." Marriage is an everlasting contract of love between two people and love and that is how it should always remain.


I enjoy the way Mary Williams writes this article, especially because she gives both sides of the story and reasons why and why not the new marriage laws would or wouldn't work. She includes some really interesting quotes from the Catholic Church and Assemblyman Leonel Luna which made the article very interesting and seems as though the two sides of the story were fighting on paper. She also wrote as though she was mocking the creators of this idea of time limited marriage contracts. At some times she was extremely sarcastic, you can tell by the way she writes that she is not in favor of the new laws but of everlasting marriage. "It doesn't always last until one person gets the privilege of burying the other one." The assemblyman Leonel Luna clearly has something against marriage is Williams is able to say that they believe its a privilege to bury the one you are married to. After reading this article, I am shocked by the thought of these new marriage contract and think that they are absurd. There should never be a time limit set on love.

http://life.salon.com/2011/09/30/why_marry_forever/