‘Renewable’ Marriages a Bad Idea
An Australian’s idea for short-term marriage agreements is getting short shrift from an American pro-family spokeswoman.
By Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow
The idea for five-year renewable marriage contracts has been floated by a marketing consultant Down Under. Helen Goltz believes lifelong marriages are becoming “a thing of the past,” she writes in a Queensland newspaper.
“We have fixed-term contracts for the buying of property, cars, and insurance, but there is only one contract available for marriage — and it is for life,” she states. “Is it time to consider introducing fixed-term marriage contracts?”
Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America obviously does not care for the idea.
“You know, if it doesn’t work you just move on, and if you want to renew it, fine — if you don’t, that’s fine too,” Crouse says in reference to attitudes at the end of the proposed marriage term. “So, the whole concept of the sacredness of marriage is completely blown — as is the whole idea of marriage for life and for better and worse.”
The family advocate says new approaches to marriage actually weaken what most societies and religions consider to be a cultural building block.
“It’s astounding, isn’t it?” Crouse wonders. “These new ideas…come along that seem to support marriage, and what they’re really doing is tearing at the underpinning of marriage so that the foundation is as shaky as it can be.”
Unanswered in Goltz’s proposal is what would happen to any children born in a marriage with a built-in opt-out date.
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)
