Chicago's Sun-Times gives us this (scroll down to "Civil law, Bible back husband, scholars say"):
" The practice of giving the spouse decision-making authority stretches back to English common law, said Herma Hill Kay, an expert on marriage law.
''Marriage is viewed as a consensual contract entered into by people who have legal capacity to marry, to in effect forsake all other bonds and cleave only to the other person, to take the words from most marriage ceremonies,'' Kay said.
Legal tradition also has a foundation in biblical law. In Genesis 2:24, it reads: ''Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.''"
What they fail to notice is that somebody ELSE has joined Michael's flesh besides Terri. He had chosen some years back to cleave unto a woman other than Terri, dividing that so-called "one flesh" he claimed in court in order to have Terri killed. Either a man is faithful to his wife even in sickness, or he is separated and moving on. He can't be both at the same time. Not even if he's a moral relativist or an "expert" on marriage law.
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