Thread by @maryarchived

hey @MoistCr1TiKaL i’d like to respond to this criticism.

please don’t assume that just because i was silent in this exchange, i implicitly agree with every take from the men.

you can imagine it is incredibly hard to get a word in and not get interrupted on this podcast.

secondly i stated that situations of mental abuse are less cut and dry than physical abuse because they are! mental/emotional abuse is nuanced, harder to legally define, harder to prove in a court of law, whereas physical abuse is a crime with cut and dry definition.

because jonathan was monopolizing air time on this debate, it got muddled when christians on the panel stated that divorce is permissible with grounds of abuse or adultery. we could have put this debate to rest earlier without him derailing with “ENDURE”

by the way, when doyle stated that divorce isn’t real, he was drawing a distinction in the catholic worldview that *sacramental* marriage cannot be dissolved by the state. but in legal terms, separation and divorce are totally permissible in cases of abuse or infidelity.