A positive message about marriage

5 January 2012

“Mend it – don’t end it” is the message from a High Court family judge to feuding couples contemplating divorce.

Drawing on over 40 years of working experience in the family justice system, Mr Justice Coleridge has announced plans for a pro-marriage organisation because of the fallout from broken marriages. 

Sir Paul Coleridge, one of the country’s most senior divorce judges, said his campaign would be aimed at promoting marriage and discouraging divorce.  His campaign has met with withspread support.

The Marriage Foundation will provide information on marriage, commission research and campaign for “family-friendly” policies.  It joins a host of other organisations already advocating these, but Sir Paul adopts a pragmatic rather than a Christian or moral attitude, saying: “I am not saying that living together is wrong. But marriage, though not perfect, is better.  I desperately want to avoid a moral crusade.”

It seems that the mere mention of morality is bound to get a campaign off to a bad start.

Nuclear button
Scottish Christian Party welcomes this initiative.  Its leader, Dr Donald M. Boyd, said: “Easy divorce is the nuclear button which has destroyed the nuclear family in the UK.  Children don’t usually want warring parents to separate - they want them to settle their differences.  When people ‘fall out of love’ so easily, and so soon after marriage, they need more practice at loving.  They need the Christian message to love God and our neighbour as oneself.”

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