The sanctity of marriage??

Question

No i dont care one way or another about gay marriage. but how can people call marriage sacred when the divorce rate is like 50%????

Answer 1

Marriage is sacred to those who practice it, breath it, and live it.

Answer 2

I believe marriage is sacred but unfortunetly I believe that married people at one point come to a unspoken realization that they will have affairs and not talk about it and hopefully not affect there kids at the same time. In my opinion I believe marriage right now is to raise kids and I think that the married couples will have other partners during that time on a descrete level and will not talk about it unless it is just obvious. Alot of married couples have jobs that require travel to other parts of the country or around the world and with a job like that you will be have emotional or sexual encounters or connections with others on a regular basis. Not that you want to but it is human nature. If your in a hotel room and you get visited by the opposite sex, something is going to happen. You will just be counting the days until the next encounter with the same person or set up a travel itenary that involves that person. Married couples in that situation in my opinion are in a nightmare situation being able to maintain being faithfull. For those that are able to stay the course of faithfulness then those folks are very special. I am not married but If I were in those situations I do not know how I would do...

Answer 3

Because no matter how many people defile the sanctity of their own marriages by infidelity and homosexuality; marriage in itself is sacred and should be treasured and protected. If you are married hold on to it as if your life depended on it, treat your relationship with your wife as if it were your life blood and fight to protect and strengthen it, and you will be a very happy man for the duration of your life. I garuntee it.

Answer 4

The institution as such is a sacred sacrament. What some people choose to make of their marriages, that is another matter.

Answer 5

Because to the 50% who are still married...it is sacred.

Answer 6

the other side of that 50% , call it sacred! not the 50% that are divorced!

Answer 7

good question...i am happily married for 5 years now. i believe that society's morals are increasingly deteriorating (believe it or not i am a liberal) regarding the demoralization of women and cheapness of sex that marriage has also become one of its innocent victims along with (and countless others) the self esteem of girls and women (if you are not skinny then you are worthless). just how i see it, all about commercialism and whats "in" at the time. think about when you can turn t.v. on and not see at least a sexual innuendo being tossed at you? with all that sex and acceptance of unfaithful marriages in movies and t.v. shows then what else can be expected of people nowadays?

Answer 8

Marriage is a social institution like anything else. It's prone to fail. Especially as individual interest become more of a priority for Americans. It is good I think. Marriage will hopefully be something of the past someday, like the draft.

Answer 9

Marriage is supposed to be sacred. Supposed to be.

Answer 10

I agree with you...they are hypocrites...I think they need to let go of their own insecurities and allow people to love and marry whomever they fall in love with no matter what the sex of the couple. In my eyes, it's hard enough to look and find love and then people have the government telling them who they can and can't marry. Seems impossible at times.