I find the covenant contract very interesting. " sign a binding contract agreeing that they would divorce only in the case of abuse, abandonment, imprisonment of a spouse, or lengthy separation. A covenant couple, no matter how miserable, cannot simply decide to divorce."
I could see them justifying infidelity as abuse or abandonment. I used to be a fundie, and Correctly Interpreting™ words to mean what they don’t mean is practically a sport.
Lengthy separation? Like a lot of couples do before or during divorce processing? Perhaps it’s worded strongly but otherwise that seems as easy out.
And unless this is just a legal contact with financial penalty, i.e. a prenup, then it’s just for show. There’s no way to enforce this legally to actually prevent divorce.
You can’t sign your rights and privileges away to be enforced as anything but civil law.
It’s pretty flimsy, like any marriage contract. Someone could be banging choir boys every day and the only thing the wife couldn’t do is quickly divorce. Very few are using this legal device anyway, it feels more like political window dressing for stupid people, which is most of the electorate.
I find the covenant contract very interesting. " sign a binding contract agreeing that they would divorce only in the case of abuse, abandonment, imprisonment of a spouse, or lengthy separation. A covenant couple, no matter how miserable, cannot simply decide to divorce."
No mention of infidelity?
I could see them justifying infidelity as abuse or abandonment. I used to be a fundie, and Correctly Interpreting™ words to mean what they don’t mean is practically a sport.
Hey, fellow former fundie! I have a couple of issues with your hermeneutics.
Lengthy separation? Like a lot of couples do before or during divorce processing? Perhaps it’s worded strongly but otherwise that seems as easy out.
And unless this is just a legal contact with financial penalty, i.e. a prenup, then it’s just for show. There’s no way to enforce this legally to actually prevent divorce.
You can’t sign your rights and privileges away to be enforced as anything but civil law.
It’s pretty flimsy, like any marriage contract. Someone could be banging choir boys every day and the only thing the wife couldn’t do is quickly divorce. Very few are using this legal device anyway, it feels more like political window dressing for stupid people, which is most of the electorate.
It’s only infidelity when women do it. Boys will be boys /s.
There is a 0% chance this dude gets laid.
How else is he supposed to fuck underaged boys?