legal or moral?

Matthew 5:31-32 (ESV)
"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' [32] But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
This verse haunts so many today. Perhaps it should, but it never seems to really haunt the people it should. It most often haunts the victims of divorce. It is a verse abused. It keeps men from marrying divorced women etc. and makes divorced women feel guilty for committing adultery.
For one, forgiveness covers all sins. Once the egg is scrambled it becomes hard to put it back together. And Jesus isn’t trying to prohibit victims of divorce from enjoying a family life.
He was impugning the men. For one in the society Jesus was addressing divorce was rampant. And they were instigated by men. Men had the power to divorce, the wife could at best make life miserable enough for her husband to get him to divorce her. People still play those tricks with each other, to make themselves look innocent. The woman may have been committing adultery with her new husband, but it was her ex husband that was taking the guilt for this sin. He was the one making her do this. She is forced. Jesus doesn’t expect her to go celibate for the rest of her life. He realizes that she is going to get married again, she is free to do so, that is the point of the certificate. He expects her to get married. Her new husband is perhaps also committing adultery with her, but again, the guilt is on the husband that divorced her. This is true except in the instance that she made herself guilty of the sin by committing it and thereby causing the divorce.
But the take home of this word of Jesus, is that just because something is legal it doesn’t mean it is moral. For that matter not everything illegal is in fact immoral in and of itself. Morality and legality are two different things, and Christians ought to be a bit more discerning about them. In our society there isn’t anything illegal about most forms of fornication, it doesn’t make it morally right. Divorce is rampant again, it is legal, but not moral. God’s law is higher than man’s law. We ought to try to obey it to the best of our abilities, yes even knowing that we are condemned by it because it is just a failure waiting to happen. In fact, we don’t have to worry about the fact that we fail at it, because our righteousness is not found there in the law, but in Christ. And knowing that, we try to live to the best of our ability according to God’s law, because we can, not because we have to. Salvation is ours by Christ, the law’s accusation is nothing, we need not fear it, we need not despair it. We live despite it.