You do realize that the question deals with the words of Christ recorded in the Gospels in response to the Pharisees, declaring that marriage was indissoluble with such clarity and simplicity that many of them stated that staying single was a better choice?

The question is not rhetorical.

And it was Christ Himself on this question who was a "proponent of absolutism".

Fit "devious old cronies" into that set of facts, si vous s'il vous plaît.