This is quite different. In the Latin Church situation, they are 'normalizing' Anglican priests who are already married. In the Melkite situation, they are taking it to the next step and ordaining married men to the priesthood. This will not fly with the Vatican .. mark my words.
Canon law already allows it. The Ukrainian bishops in Canada have been doing it for years.
No it isn't. One is proposing to ordain married men, and the other is also proposing to ordain married men. The only difference is that in one case the men were previously involved in Protestant ministry, and in the other the men were (usually) baptized Catholics as infants.
IMO, the requirement for Eastern Catholics to ordain only celibate men is bogus and wrong. It's a violation of the agreements by which they (re)entered communion with the Holy See, and was done only to placate certain American Latin hierarchs with a habit of sticking their noses in things that were none of their business.
Let the Greeks be Greeks, and the Latins be Latins, and if that means the Greek priest has a wife and 10 kids, good for him and Glory to God.
How are they “taking it to the next step?” You mean doing what Rome said they could do from the beginning? What they’ve been doing for 2,000 years? SHOCK! GASP! Eastern Catholics actually telling Latins they want Rome to live up to their agreements.