Eye Opener
Philandering husbands beware!
Battered and unloved wives should praise and congratulate the recent landmark decision of the Supreme Court expelling from the bar an influential PBA Commissioner for "grossly immoral conduct". Wives with acute marital problem with their husbands should follow the example set by the PBA commissioner's wife in boldly bringing the case to the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court.
At present, there are hundreds of husbands working in the government including the private sector, who maintain two or three queridas but remain scot-free since their wives may not want to make a public scandal or public shame. Philandering husbands may keep their amorous relationship with another woman secretly especially when the paramour is situated in another province or city. Their boss may have known the extra-marital relationship of his subordinate but keep a blind eye on the situation. As head of the office, the boss is supposed to be the spiritual father of the entire office and his minding not the amorous relationship may also affect the performance of the adulterer. Other wives may not actually know the extra-marital relationship of their husbands with sex-hungry women until a child, an hija de bastarda, is born. Knowing that his employee has an extra-marital relationship with another woman, is the boss also liable before the eyes of the Almighty? Is co-habiting with another woman other than a legal wife, a sin? Exodus 20:14 in the Holy Scripture says, "Thou shall not commit adultery." Can an adulterer enter the Kingdom of God and have an eternal life? 1 Corinthians 6:9, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor adulaters, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Marriage is a sacred covenant between a man and a woman. In Hebrew 13:4, "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bad undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." It may be recalled that the former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines dismissed several army and PNP personnel who had an extra-marital relationship with another woman. Public officials and personnel should set a good example to the public that "a public office is a public trust". Many government offices in the entire country hold Catholic masses either on Monday or Friday and the priests may have extolled the flock that God's commandment, "Thous shall not commit adultery", or other passages in the Bible which God hates adulterers and adulteresses. God in Colossians 3:18-19, "Wives submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter towards them."