COMMENTARY: Marriage Will Remain a Viable Institution

American actress Cameron Diaz -- best known for her role in the 1998 movie comedy "There's Something About Mary" -- asserted last week that marriage is a "dying institution."

The 38-year-old actress said, "I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don't suit our world any longer."

Our question to Diaz is, "Just why don't the traditions of marriage suit our world any longer?"

Does Diaz believe that a more suitable lifestyle for today's world should be cohabitation -- or couples living together -- rather than having a marital commitment?

Also, does she believe that cohabitation is more modern and convenient because it allows couples to easily separate and live with someone else without any need to go through the formality and legality of a divorce?

Diaz -- who has never been married -- has had close relationships with at least eight men since 1990, beginning when she was only 18 years old. These men include: Carlos De La Torre, Matt Dillon, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Slater, Criss Angel, Paul Sculfor, and currently, baseball great Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod).

It appears that Diaz -- based upon the above list of male "partners" -- wants to enjoy a relationship for a couple of years with one man, and then leave him so she can hook up with another one.

While this kind of lifestyle may provide a lot of fun and happiness -- with little or no responsibility -- for Diaz at the present time, it lacks the commitment and stability that is essential to ensure a "life worth living" in her older years.

Moreover, the fact that she is not really interested in having any children may come back to haunt her, as it may well deprive her of the joys she could have had in her old age.

Indeed, it would behoove Diaz to seriously consider obeying the Bible with respect to marriage:

"But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
"For this cause, shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
"And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." --Mark 10:6-9

Marriage between a man and a woman, then, is an institution that has prevailed in society for thousands of years and -- in all likelihood -- will continue to remain a viable institution for thousands of years in the future.