I heard on a news story last week about a senator for a political party in Colombia who wanted to pass a law that would either fine or give prison time to spouses who cheat.
I have been searching online to find a link to post on this blog that takes you to that information. I found one but the information is in Spanish. So, even if you can’t read Spanish, I thought it is still an interesting issue. For what I heard this politician argued that marriage is a contract and if one of the spouses cheats he or she would be breaking this contract, therefore this person has to pay the consequences for braking it. In the article by the newspaper El Tiempo, the senator said that his objective was to rebuild the value of family and try to protect children from suffering from their parents’ separation due to infidelity.
A long time ago, I was sitting on a church service where the pastor started talking about covenants. He explained how thousands of years ago the way people would symbolize a covenant was through mixing salt. For instance, if two people were setting a covenant both would place and mix salt in one container this simply meant that when one of the parties was able to separate the salt from each of them, then the covenant could be broken.
Separating salt seems an impossible task to me. So, the pastor mentioned how marriage was one kind of covenant… whether you are a religious person or not, maybe you would agree with this idea.
Maybe it is a good idea to put harsh laws on cheater spouses. This doesn’t mean that it would stop infidelity but it might make people think about it twice. After all, nothing is really hidden in this world.
