Divorce and Remarriage

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In a message dated 9/16/98 8:26:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time, lyohnk@juno.com
writes:

<< Believe it or not, I found it in a dictionary.  Fornication is the 
 >umbrella
 >term that covers all acts of immorality.  From there it breaks down 
 >into
 >Adultery, incest, molestation, bestiality, porn, lewdness, and even 
 >leering at
 >someone and lusting after them, in the broader sense of the word would 
 >come
 >under the definition.
 >
 >I am sure if your husband was leering at other women inordinately, you 
 >own
 >personal definition would probably change of its own accord.  The same 
 >goes if
 >you or I for that manner was caught up in leering at the opposite sex, 
 >we
 >would get a reaction from our spouses, and if we didn't quit 
 >than.........
 >
 >Pastor Fitzgerel
 >
 What you say makes a certain amount of sense in that, yes, if my husband
 was leering at other women I would be upset.  The problem I see with this
 definition, however, is that if we can't divorce saving for the cause of
 fornication, the definition of fornication becomes very important.  I
 think the scripture I used about murder make this point clear. I think
 young men especially have trouble with this because, like you said, it is
 a sex saturated society.  Young men need to realize the damage that
 leering causes ( and old men that haven't learned yet) but I just
 couldn't feel good about telling a young woman she had grounds for
 divorce because her husband couldn't keep his eyes in his head. Also,
 even if he wasn't looking at other women "like that" she could charge him
 with it because he had his eyes open.  Grounds for divorce then becomes
 very flimsy indeed.
 
 Lynne Yohnk
  >>

Pastor Fitzgerel,	
	I wouldn't move so fast if I was you to divorce so quickly. Leering leads to
lust and lust leads to sin and sin leads to death.  So if not corrected in the
leering stages, grounds for divorce will eventually be there.  So you that
leer, hasten and repent.

Pastor Fitzgerel