No, it's Protestant duplicity when one keeps insisting an annulment is the same thing as a divorce when it manifestly is not.
There's no such thing as a "no-fault" annulment. Annulments are granted because the marriage was entered into under false pretenses and therefore was not valid.
That a spouse remains for an extended period in hopes of repairing the fault and becomes convinced they can not is none of your business, and certainly not yours to judge.
“That a spouse remains for an extended period in hopes of repairing the fault and becomes convinced they can not is none of your business, and certainly not yours to judge.”
Who’s judging (politicians don’t count)? They get divorced civilly, and the church does whatever it wants to recognize the results of the “unmarriage”
“No, it’s Protestant duplicity when one keeps insisting an annulment is the same thing as a divorce when it manifestly is not. “
An annulment and a divorce have the same result - a church recognized dissolution of marriage. Catholics pretend it never happened, Protestants just divorce. It’s the same result - you disagree that it is the same result, the very definition of duplicity - an argument I attempted to avoid with Catholics by pointing out it’s simply “unmarriage”.
What's manifest is that two people who got married in a church ceremony are now officially declared unmarried any longer and the result, the manifest results, are the same, whether you call it divorce or annulment. What's manifest is the man and woman are no longer called husband and wife and are split up. Same end.
That which we call a rose by any other name......