Civil Law and Marriage

 As a Catholic I consider  Marriage  as a holy matrimony, a sacrament and contract, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and a religious institution. They are new suggestions in Lebanon to grant civil Marriage.

  In my opinion, for the agnostics, atheists and people from different religion including Lebanese that would not like to take part of a religious marriage,  it is necessary for the State to ratify the law and allow a “Civil Union” between a man and woman.

But it should not be called a “Marriage”, it should be referred to as a “Civil Union”.  The duty of the state is to represent all its population. So it is unjust for few to allow the meaning of Marriage to change from a divine sacrament to just a piece of “contract” . Marriage should be divine and should not be taken lightly as it is in the Western World where most of couples are divorced with no sense of Family, value and respect to society.  Just take an example of how they treat the elderly and children. Do we need more “broken” families as the Western World? Yes to “civil Union” by the state and no to “civil Marriage” because there is no such thing as civil in Marriage.