[Verginius Rufus]

There are lots of people around who were baptized as Catholics as babies but later became Protestants and married in a Protestant ceremony. Are they really proclaiming that they regard all of those marriages as invalid?

Sarah Palin's marriage, for example...

[markomalley]

There are lots of people around who were baptized as Catholics as babies but later became Protestants and married in a Protestant ceremony. Are they really proclaiming that they regard all of those marriages as invalid?

That's what it says.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

My reading would say that as long as Mr. Palin was baptized using “The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit” it would be a valid marriage.

[Campion]

There are lots of people around who were baptized as Catholics as babies but later became Protestants and married in a Protestant ceremony. Are they really proclaiming that they regard all of those marriages as invalid?

Going forward, yes.

As to whether it's retroactive, I'll have to defer on that one. (My guess is not.)

I doubt it would make any difference to Ms. Palin anyway, unless she got a divorce and wanted to marry a Catholic, in which case (if the law were retroactive), it would make it much easier for her.

[Salvation]

Yes, and another one would be Glenn Beck — baptized as a Catholic, but now practicing the Mormon mindset.

[Heliand]

The marriages are irregular. They can be regularized validated retroactively if the parties wish by returning to the Church and retracing their steps to have a valid marriage cermeony to make up for what was lacking in the form and minister of the first ceremony. Otherwise, the marriage remains invalid.