Sinead O'Connor’s 16 Day Marriage Evoke Debate About Values
Irish singer and songwriter, Sinead O’Connor has ended her marriage with husband Barry Herridge after only 16 days, creating concern for some who fear that the traditional values behind marriage are being destroyed.
The marriage between the 45-year-old singer and Barry Herridge took place in the back of a pink Cadillac in Las Vegas on December 8. O’Connor, who has been married three times before, gave a lengthy encounter on her website as to why the couple split.
“Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed by the behavior of certain people in my husband's life,” O’Connor wrote.
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O’Connor claims that the family members of Herridge strongly objected to his union with her and had created too much pressure for her husband to ever find happiness in it.
“These were people who had never met me but had formed opinions of me based on what they read about 'Sinead O'Connor' in the media etc. Entitled as they are to their opinions about me many perhaps well deserved, there was no righteousness on anyone's part to put my husband through what he was put through,” she wrote.
The singer has been at the center of much controversy throughout her career. In 2000, she proclaimed to be lesbian but later revoked the statement saying it was an attempt to make someone else feel better.
She was also ordained as a priest in 1990 by an Independent Catholic group. Her views on Christianity have been mixed.
“I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home... I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally,” she told Christianity Today in 2007.
Then, in 2011, she wrote an article for the Sunday Independent newspaper where she described the Vatican as “a nest of devils in regards to a sex abuse scandal.”
She also disclosed in 2007 that she had been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder in 2003 and had made an attempt to take her life.
The singer made the decision to end the marriage admitting to making a mistake by rushing into the marriage when it did not serve to benefit her husband.
“It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me he would be losing too much. And that being with me was not going to serve him positively, career wise or any other wise,” the singer explained.
O’Connor wrote that the couple had parted amicably and that she intended to continue on being her usual self.
The singer joins a long list of celebrities who have ended their marriages in a very short amount of time, including Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.
Mike and Trisha Fox see the mass media as part of a destruction of the traditional meaning of marriage.
“Marriage is and will always be our foundation for family, relationship and the fundamental structure to which all peoples far and near stem from. And not only marriage, but traditional, Godly marriage – between a man and woman,” they wrote in a Christian Post article titled, The End of Marriage – Declaring War on Traditional Marriage.
They say, “The unthinkable has happened for all Christian couples that have not been desensitized by the liberal media: the war on traditional marriage is climaxing to an almost unstoppable, destructive momentum.”
