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'Life's Short. Get a Divorce'
By: Holly|Published: May 7, 2007 8:01 AM


That's the tagline being used by a Chicago law firm to promote their divorce "services." The huge billboard, which hangs in Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast neighborhood, features two scantily clad bodies. It screams sex. The law firm is defending the "cutting edge" ad. Divorce attorney Corri Fetman audaciously says, "If you're unhappy, that life is too short to continue in an unhappy marriage, those images provide hope."

Hope?! Hope for what? Why has our society reduced everything down to sex? Why is one's own happiness the supreme goal? What ever happened to sacrifice and commitment?


Comments:

I was heartbroken over this broadcast. If only Mr. Colson's ministry instilled this same view in their employees! My spouse works for PFM and has left me recently! My spouse says God has given peace about walking out of our marriage! At home my spouse was a totally different person from the person I have seen at the ministry functions and at church! My spouse screams and cusses at eveyone in our home but in public my spouse can pray on a dime! I find it disturbing that people like this are allowed to continue in this ministry!
Posted By: Name Withheld on May 25, 2007 3:17 PM
Can't say I'm surprised. This, after all, was the theme of an award winning film, The Hours, just a few years ago: your 'duty' to yourself to be happy, no matter who it hurts. Add in all the tabloids -- with their endless string of stories about celebrities who jump in and out of relationships, and this marketing scheme makes perfect sense -- especially to people who believe this life is all there is.
Posted By: Diane Singer on May 09, 2007 12:24 PM
Ah, yes—happiness. That personal “right” that trumps all other considerations—like the effect that exercising my right will have on the happiness of others--my spouse, children, and all of those caught in the crosshairs of my dissatisfaction. But such are the casualties when “Life is short”, heh?
Posted By: Regis Nicoll on May 07, 2007 5:31 PM
This ad is brutally honest. Those who live as slaves to their sexuality will buy it and possibly the law firm's services. The greedy lawyers might even profit from it. No good will come of that money. The brutal honesty, however, might smack others in the face with the reality of the long distance we've placed between sex and genuine love. Sometimes truth has a rude way of awakening. Marybeth T. Hagan Author of "Abortion: A Mother's Plea for Maternity and the Unborn" (Liguori Publications) http://www.mothermayibeborn.com
Posted By: Marybeth T. Hagan on May 07, 2007 9:41 AM

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