On Biblical Grounds?

 I just now read an article about a Texas polititians wife filing for divorce "on Biblical grounds."

Filing for divorce wouldnt be remarkable. Happens all the time. 

But "on Biblical grounds"?

That is like calling the police because someone blasphemed, or was alleged to be a heretic.

In Saudi Arabia or Iran this might occur because there is no wall of separation between Church and State. They have "Sharia Law"- something Texas  "conservatives" frequently rail against. But this aforementioned divorce filing is in Texas...so does this import that  "Christian Sharia" Law is the thing in Texas? Is this state a theocracy now?

That is damn scary!

 Civil marriage is essentially just registration of corporate status involving the legal and financial matters of two individuals. Divorce is the legal dissolving of that corporate entity and the settling of its accounts and responsibilities.

Marriage within a religious context is an entirely different matter. It is the joining of two people in a life bond involving not Civil Law but religious doctrines or shared beliefs.

The Constitution prohibits the establishment of religion in the US, so Civil Law can have no effect on religious matters. 

For example, if two people are married in a religious ceremony in the Catholic Church that sacramental marriage cannot be dissolved by civil divorce. The Church has be requested to annul the marriage, through its own Marriage Tribunal, on certain religious grounds; and only that could end the marriage bond in the religious sense. 

But the parties - if a Civil marriage license had been obtained- would still have file a legal request with a Civil Court, and await the ruling of a Civil Judge for the civil marriage to be dissolved in divorce proceedings.

There are civil marriages and there are religious marriages. But they are not the same thing.

People can obtain both. But they are separate matters. Apples and oranges.

Remember : according to our Constitution there is a separation of Church and State.

And that is why the article I first mentioned seemed bizzare to me.

How can a civil contract be affected by religious beliefs or "on Biblical grounds"?

That is a poison within a legal system. If one can apply this in a Texas court of law then would one could be able to legally stone someone to death for blasphemy- that is actually "Biblical".

Before the Constitution was written American colonists were put to death as witches and heretics...

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