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You've been a great cheerleader for Michael. Hopefully, he'll invite you to the victory party.

Yet, another well reasoned argument. I'll attempt to respond to your blistering logic anyway.

You have entirely misunderstood my statements. It's the sanctity of marriage that concerns me. Not what kind of jerk she married.

I don't believe you. It's not the sanctity you have been upholding, it's the notion that Michael owns Terri. She's his property to be disposed of as he choses. You refuse to acknowledge his conflict of interest in this case.

And it's not about you and your marriage or me and my marriage. As far as I know, neither one of us will have our marriages threatened if Terri lives.

You are correct that Schiavo is still her husband in the eyes of God no matter how many children he has out of wedlock. The only jurisdiction the Church has theologically is to declare upon annulment that the marriage never existed in the first place - on the basis of abandonment - but that's after the fact. They're still married in the eyes of the Church until a civil divorce takes place and annulment proceedings are completed. And that doesn't even guarantee that an annulment would be granted. A Church tribunal could come back and say "even though this guy is a cad and debatably an evil human being, it doesn't mean their marriage vows were invalid when taken." There would have to be proof that Michael intended from the altar to abandon his wife - or, more likely, that he had no intent to see through the vows of "for better or for worse". That said, however, it may be possible instead to argue that he was severely abusive to her, and this indicated a condition of mind that likely existed at the time of vows, which would be easier to grant annulment over.

Sanctity of marriage of marriage does not apply to the spouse who blatantly in the eyes of all repudiates it by shacking up with another woman and fathers 2 illegitimate children.
I have posted that to you already and you have failed to answer.
There is a general rule of interpretation in law, "you must come to the court with clean hands."
If Michael wants to rely on the sanctity of marriage to gain standing, he must first respect sanctity of marriage himself.
Tough,but you can't off one spouse in order to get another.