Posted on 10/15/2004 8:58:28 AM PDT by johniegrad
A Washington Times article was just pulled because the poster violated the copyright rules for our website. I was in the process of typing a response to the article and it was pulled prior to my posting. I went to the Times website and could not find it. There was something about his marriages that would be of interest to a number of Freepers, i.e., the article said he married Theresa Heinz BEFORE his first marriage was annulled. I think that may be new information. Is there a way to get this article, appropriately excerpted, back on the site.
Why did you not send the mods a freepmail?
bttt
Sometimes you can find them by doing a search of cached pages on Google if they have been pulled form the host site....
The annulment question was a Catholic Church legal formality. This practice is extremely common, and has nothing to do with the legality of either marriage.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
They could have had their "marriage" blessed afterward. I believe their is a 1-year waiting period.
check this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110539/posts
Being married to TWO women at the same time IS a problem.
I'll say.
he annulled his first marriage, even though he had children from that marriage? i know people (mainly wealthy men) do this, i just don't understand how the Catholic Church allows it...
Anyone who supports Bush will stay as far away as possible from the Kerry 1st wife/marriage story. It will do irrepairable damage to Bush if this is brought up...tick off the squishy middle, solidify Kerry's base.
It's bad form.
(In case you doubt me, think about how successful the democrats were when they tried to bring up Jane Wyman/divorce/2nd marriage/etc. That really worked wonders.
Give me some clues on the title and I'll look it up and help you out. I have a subscription and I can supply you with the url as well.
What you read IS correct. I had read it also and can't recall the title - even with searching around.
E-mail me privately and I'll help you out.
Catholic or not, annulments are CRAZY - EIGHTEEN years of marriage and THEN to have married the *itch before he was divorced, for more money of course is a problem for most of us.
A religious annulment is a process in the Catholic church. It only affects whether the Church recognizes your marriage - not whether it is legally binding.
Now if you are talking about a secular annulment (which I can't imagine would be the case since the original marriage was obviously consummated because they have children), then yes Kerry would be a bigamist. Is that what you are suggesting?
Kerry himself has never been able to provide evidence of an annulment. All he has said is that he "applied" for one, although he doesn't say when he did this (probably just before the start of the campaign!).
He was married in a civil ceremony on his lawn (or maybe it was the lawn of his lovely wife...). If he later got an annulment he could then have regularized his situation, but it doesn't sound as though he ever did. I suppose it's also quite possible that the annulment was refused, because I believe his first wife was undergoing a nervous breakdown at the time.
In any case, he's never made it clear. The thing that has probably prevented this from coming out is the fact that he attends the left-wing "Paulist Center" in Boston, which like him is Catholic in name only.
Depends on how much you give to the church.
"he annulled his first marriage, even though he had children from that marriage? i know people (mainly wealthy men) do this, i just don't understand how the Catholic Church allows it..."
It's not Biblical and is that of another Gospel as well as illogical.
No, nothing to do with legality, but it would mean the Heinz-Kerry's are not married in the church, in spite of being such "devout" Catholics.
I understand your question about whether Kerry ever had his first marriage annulled, but regardless we all know that Kerry is no true Catholic. It would be yet another reason for him to be excommunicated.
Rationalize it all you want but it is NOT Biblical and is nothing more than a DIVORCE for money without the label.
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