Some years ago a judge...
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Some years ago a judge in New York City gave this charge to the jury in a divorce case:
I charge you, that so far as any religious or sacramental, or church bond existing between these people, we have nothing whatever to do with it. If you decide for divorce in this case, remember you only cut the knot tied by the state's law, but you absolutely do not touch the religious or sacramental bond which states that persons are married, 'until death do them part.' When we are through with this case, that obligation is left untouched. We do nothing whatever to it. People are just as much bound by it after we get through with them as they were before. We do not sever it -- we do not break it, and that is something that it seems to me is very often misunderstood."
This gives us something to think about in a time when almost one half of the marriages in this country end in divorce.
-- Dessem
I charge you, that so far as any religious or sacramental, or church bond existing between these people, we have nothing whatever to do with it. If you decide for divorce in this case, remember you only cut the knot tied by the state's law, but you absolutely do not touch the religious or sacramental bond which states that persons are married, 'until death do them part.' When we are through with this case, that obligation is left untouched. We do nothing whatever to it. People are just as much bound by it after we get through with them as they were before. We do not sever it -- we do not break it, and that is something that it seems to me is very often misunderstood."
This gives us something to think about in a time when almost one half of the marriages in this country end in divorce.
-- Dessem
