Marriage and Unity

In paragraph 12 of Humanae Vitae in the topic of “Union and Procreation” “This particular doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium of the Church, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act.” This is talking about how one is suppose to be faithful in marriage. By taking the oath of marriage it is saying that you have an inseparable connection that is established by God when you stood at the altar and made your vows. It makes the commitment of marriage seem very powerful and basically says that you are united for with the person you took that vow with.

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I believe that when one takes the vow of marriage and commits to the act of it that they are committing to be faithful and united with that person. When people say their vows at an alter, I believe that they should mean them and stand behind them. I think Natural Law definitely comes into play here, that it is just morally right to stand behind that vow of unity. It is universal reasoning at work here and if someone isn’t ready to take that vow, they shouldn’t be getting married in the first place. I think the Pope is right here saying that people shouldn’t break their “united significance”. I do think though that in modern society today, divorce is common and sometimes this will be broken with temptation being so prevalent today. Not all marriages can work and that is just life. I think that what he is saying can only go to a certain extent. People should be faithful and trustworthy while in the marriage and no wrongdoings onto the other are morally right but if two people can simply just not get along there is nothing wrong with breaking that vow and moving on if both agree. I don’t think that religion should have anything to do with marriage unless the two people want it to have to do their marriage. In the establishment clause it states, “Congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” People should be able to get married however they want, but the vows, whatever those be at the alter they should live by through out their marriage to each other. Marriage should be a sacred type of thing and it should not be done, to simply be done. Natural law versus social constructive is a tough subject but I think that most people would agree that it is morally right when you agree to get married there are things that are morally correct do while being married such as being faithful. This has been seen through out time obviously that people are supposed to be faithful during marriage. It is seen as morally correct and when people break that it has brought about great trouble in the past such as violence, etc. Marriage is a significant promise that should be kept to best of one’s ability while committed to one.