Thanks for doing some more research on this. For those who actually care about the truth and not just trying to fling mud hoping to smear everyone with it with which they don't agree, it is interesting to note that Luther did NOT even know Katherina when she and her fellow nuns were freed from the convent they no longer wanted to stay at. He didn't actually meet her until TWO YEARS after that happened. So, I guess we can expect certain people to apologize for having accused them both of "sneaking around to get it on". We know that is a false accusation now and, hopefully, we won't hear it repeated again the next time Martin Luther's name is brought up. Hope springs eternal, right?
Thanks. I missed Daniel’s post.
And I add my thanks to Daniel for his always excellent research and his commitment to TRUTH.
This is not what his bio on wiki says, citing "Wilson, 232":
Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels.[86] "Suddenly, and while I was occupied with far different thoughts," he wrote to Wenceslaus Link, "the Lord has plunged me into marriage."[87] At the time of their marriage, Katharina was 26 years old and Luther was 41 years old.
In any event, two years after her fish barrel escape, or twenty two years, she was still not free to marry, and he therefore was not free to marry her. The legality of his own marriage rest on the sad premise that after excommunication he was a wholesale outlaw no matter what he did.
And you knew that James Dobson was responsible for Matthew Shepherd’s murder also?
The track record makes that doubtful.