Only 1 thing with what you said, he got his first marriage annulled so he could marry the second wife within the church..Making his children bastards...
QUESTION: Will my children be illegitimate if my marriage is annulled?
Answer: NO! This is a grave misconception. The marital status of the parents does not affect the status of the children. All children are created in God's image and have equal status in the church. Neither civil law nor church law considers the children of an annulled marriage illegitimate. Nor does the annulment imply that the children were not the fruit of a genuine human love. Annulment is simply a decision on the circumstances surrounding a marriage that could prevent that marriage from being a sacramental marriage.
http://www.stdanielclarkston.org/annulmnt.htm
Not true. Annullments (sp) no longer, if they ever did, make the children bastards.
One of my problems with anullments is the fact it voids the first marriage, as if it never existed when it did exist. And some can get annullments more easily than others. And does anyone really believe that God forgets about that first marriage?
I know people who waited years to get an anullment (sp) and people who got one just because they knew somebody. That one Kennedy, the one who slept with the teen babysitter, got an annullment pretty quickly. I recall some of the brouhaha about that. I also know people who waited years to get married because their partner had a tough time getting an annullment.
Incorrect. Kennedy was married to Reggie in a civil ceremony in his home in McLean, VA on 3 July 1992, not in a church. There's no indication that his second marriage was a sacramental one.
Making his children bastards.
Wrong again.
No an annulment does not make the first children bastards. It is not a “legal” annulment but a religious one.