NANAWAGAN ang Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) sa mga nagsusulong ng divorce na maghinay-hinay at isipin ang malaking epekto na maidudulot nito sa lipunan.
Sa isang pastoral letter na inilabas nitong Huwebes sa 128th Plenary Assembly, sinabi ng CBCP na hindi dapat madaliin ang panukala na nagsusulong ng absolute divorce.
“Before we jump into the divorce bandwagon, before we end up regretting it and hearing those who dared to swim against the current, ‘But we told you so!’, can we just take a little more time and ask – could there be a reason why we are practically the last remaining country in the world that still has not opted to legalize civil divorce?” ayon sa sulat na nilagdaan ni CBCP president Bishop Pablo Virgilio David.
“The Tagalog expression, ‘Maghunos-dili muna tayo at mag-isip-isip,’ (Let us keep our cool and reflect) is probably the most appropriate exhortation to those who are too eager to come up with an Absolute Divorce Law in our country.”
Delikado rin anya para sa gobyerno na dali-daling magdesisyon para sa pagdidiborsyo ng mag-asawa.
“Think of the sufferings that you would have had to endure if civil divorce had already been available as a remedy for what your own parents may have thought back then were ‘irreconcilable differences’ between them,” dagdag pa ng liham.
Wala rin anyang katiyakan na pagkatapos ng diborsyo na ang susunod na kasal ay magiging mas maasyos na.
“Statistics tell us that in countries where civil divorce is legal, ‘failure rate for first marriage is roughly 48 percent, 60 percent for second, and 70 percent for third marriages’ (National Center for Health Statistics in the United States). Are we sure we want our families to become part of (these) grim statistics?” dagdag pa nito.
Nitong Mayo, ipinasa sa ikatlo at huling pagbasa ang House Bill 9349 o ang Absolute Divorce Bill, at ngayon ay nakabinbin sa Senado.
