The Contract is Over

The Family Code defines marriage as a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with the law for the establishment of conjugal and family life. Likewise, the Constitution provides that the family is a social basic institution by which public policy cherishes and protects. In  all, marital union is a sacred and solemn occasion by which the parties are bound to observe mutual love, offer fidelity and give needed support until the color of death appears.

While no law prohibits marriage between a Filipino and an alien, the State, nevertheless, must guard all the evils that may germinate with the present trend of marital sacrament. Obviously, gone were the days when we only seldom witness a union between two couples of different races. In fact, the converse is true, where some Filipino women sell their souls to senile aliens in exchange for material wealth and fortunate disposition in life. Sadly, instead of rearing a happy family after having perfected the special contract, when love and lust begins to crumble like a sand fortress, each, particularly the non-Filipino spouse, with their own tales, causes to file divorce.

Absolute divorce may not find solace under our system of family affairs, as it is against public morals and customs. However, Article 26 of the family code provides for recognition of divorce validly obtained by the alien spouse outside of the Philippines. To succinctly put it, alien spouses are given the road to severe marriage in foreign land. Apparently, this has been the practice and the common resort of dissatisfied partners having lost the heat of mutual affection. While it may be true that no one is bound to live in hell, nonetheless, with this controversy of demeaning the sanctity of family life, the State must risks all it efforts to preserve the basic unit of the society.

An assault against the Filipino ideals

                   It is this person who holds the highest office of the land that must shape the inevitable future of the republic; it is the same person who must fulfil the dreams of the people and the succeeding generation; it is the last person who is expected to violate the law, much more the constitution, and he is the President, not of any organized society, but the entire sovereign Filipino people. While his authority emanates from the electoral public, he is without license to ignore the law neither the Constitution which rests upon its document the bedrock and the foundation of the Filipino ideals.

                When President Aquino boasted, without reservation, in saying “KAYO ANG BOSS KO”, he immediately desecrated the aspirations and dreams of the Filipino people. The President is with no doubt referring to the entire sovereign people of the Republic of the Philippines, but its entirety is composed of the elite families, the poor Filipinos, the business sector, the labor, the lawbreakers, the corrupt, the smugglers, the tax evaders, the good citizens and the bad ones. Does he mean to serve the interest of every composing member of the entire sovereign body? Is he to give the demands of the present society without delay and without comprehending its consequences? Is he subject to command by any group of society?

                We may construe that Aquino may have referred to the Will of the people, but the Will of the people is not the present cries of Filipino people; it is the will that is entrenched in the Constitution that must be protected and served. The President has taken an oath to preserve its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to every man, and consecrate himself to the service of the nation. It is an oath to secure the Filipino people that ours is a government of laws and not of men. The President must not be swayed with any unwanted call from the present public for he is a stature of the past, present and future Filipinos.