[SoothingDave]

Divorce and remarriage: All Churches have caved in. Some call it by a different name - "Annulment". That explains why the Teddy Kennedy's of the world can re-marry and still be in good standing with the Church. This is a Red Herring issue.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, then "annulment" is the hypocrisy that we pay to upholding the sanctity of marriage. There is a vast difference between holding up a high standard and showing some mercy on folks who get lost along the way, and abandoning your standards altogether.

Like birth control. Lots of Catholics do it, but they still know that they are doing something wrong. Protestants have all caved.

SD

[OLD REGGIE]

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, then "annulment" is the hypocrisy that we pay to upholding the sanctity of marriage. There is a vast difference between holding up a high standard and showing some mercy on folks who get lost along the way, and abandoning your standards altogether.

I have only one answer to this. BULL, PURE UNALDERATED CRAP.
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Like birth control. Lots of Catholics do it, but they still know that they are doing something wrong. Protestants have all caved.

This is a lie and and I call it a lie because you know better.