[ealgeone]

The German 'Catholic' gay advocates and their allies realize that all these arguments about respecting the "positive" in gay relationships, apply to illicit straight relationships as well, meaning stable cohabitation or adulterous second marriages where the first spouse is still alive. They say these pseudo-marriages exhibit fidelity, responsibility, etc. and we should respect that.

Would David and Bathsheba been allowed Communion in the RCC?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I realize this is theoretical, or a "supposal"as C.S. Lewis said, but: Yes.

David and Bathsheba could receive Communion on the same grounds as anybody else: if they were licitly married (as they were after the death of Uriah), and if they repented of their sin (which they did), confessed and absolved.

And if they were baptized members of the Catholic Church!