What an interesting approach to discuss varied subjects. Kudos to you Cynthia and your producers. This will definitely be one I will watch.

Oh boy, the prude in me has just perked up….I feel some heavy duty judgement about to raise it’s ugly head in me. I have strong opinions and beliefs on the subject of adultery. ;-)

I watch niteline every nite, this is a series I’ll be more then happy to watch.  I’ve been in heated discussions w/ my estranged siblings on this particular commandment.  She’s been a Mistress for over 24 yrs and has absolutely no feelings of guilt about her part in the breakup of a family and the relationship that was lost between a father and daughter.  She’s not the only one guilty in this relationship her partner is more guilty then her, because he didn’t tell her for a few yrs he was married.

And my own Mother was a Mistress to my stepfather and had four kids with him, I was a child of 6 when they got together and always thought they were married until I read in the paper (I was 15) that he had lost his wife of over 25 yrs.

And my own marriage ended because of my x@@@@husbands Adultery, so I’ll be very interested in watching this.

Oh, boy, oh, boy. Talk about a HOT topic! I like the idea of a news show tackling this kind of broad-spectrum kind of subject and opening it up for discussion. The Ten Commandments, eh? Plenty of scope there for all kinds of controversy and excitement.

Actually, thinking of the 7th Commandment took me back to my childhood and the Wednesday afternoon Catechism I attended for many years. One of the first things we did, in preparation for making our First Communion, was to review each of the 10 Commandments. Every week for ten weeks, the nun teaching our class would bring in a little card for each of us. One side had a picture in sweet pastel colors illustrating the Commandment written on the other side, along with a little prayer for us to memorize. I loved the cards, and brought them home to show my parents. My Catholic mother helped me learn the little prayer, and my Presbyterian father looked a little bemused. When we got to the 6th Commandment, he said, "Well, I’m certainly looking forward to next week’s card. Should be very interesting."

The following week, I came home, proudly bearing the card for "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." I handed it over to my father the minute he came through the door after work. I still remember the HUGE guffaw from him when he saw the picture of a farmer pouring a bucket of water into a milk can. Yep. Thou shalt NOT commit adultery. In any way, shape or form.

" ‘Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.’  Obvious and a little boring."

I disagree.  I have often wondered if this commandment were taken seriously would we be a happier people?   It seems to me that human beings have a tendency to place godlike importance on wants and desires, fears and hates that hypnotize and sidetrack us from the discovery of our true self and a fulfilling life.  Is the commandment less about God and more about what would free us?

Think about it, how much importance is placed on desires - things like alcohol, drugs, food or insatiable appetite, money, overspending money or obsessive consumerism, sexual addiction, being thin, changing one’s look to the point of plastic surgery addiction, having to have a man or a woman in our lives to make us feel real or alive, and I am sure there are more - need I go on?   How important or godlike do we make the unimportant in our lives?  Is it to the extent that we miss out on the beautiful and individual gift that is within us?

My parent’s marriage broke up because of this and not only was the marriage destroyed but my father was not there for us kids. His stepkids were always better then us. He married his mistress who might of been married during their affair. He moved cross country and I had no idea that he did this.

Breaking a marriage vow seems to be old hat in this society along with having kids without marriage. I made a choice not to marry or have kids due to this. 

My mom did the best she could do. With the breakup of marriage, we lost a 3 bedroom 2 bath owner unit of a 4 apt. building going to a 2 bedroom mobile home. My father paid his support till we were 18 but we never had the same quality of life when my parents were married.