Based on GOD’S standards, the One who defined marriage, no, it is not marriage.
GOD prohibits incest and the other situations are sin.
However, that still does not invalidate my contention.
The Catholic church does not own the concept of marriage and nowhere in Scripture is it shown to have been given sole authority to determine what a *valid* marriage is.
The Catholic church sets itself up as the final authority on everything and by claiming that only Catholic marriages performed by a Catholic priests to practicing Catholics is valid, puts EVERYONE else married outside of it as living in sin.
A Hindu marriage between a man and woman is as much as marriage in the eyes of God as a Catholic one done the *right* way. The Catholic church blessing it is meaningless.
Annulment is simply church sanctioned divorce and all this nonsense about *valid* marriages are nothing more than an excuse to get out of a marriage one no longer wants to be in, all for a fee, of course.
Yeah still dodging, but I expected that.
I really wish that non-Catholics actually read and understood the Bible they claim to love so much>
Abraham's brother Nahor married his niece Milcah, the daughter of his other brother Haran
In one of the tales of a wife confused for a sister, Abraham admitted that his wife Sarah is also his half-sister, on his father's side.[2] However, in the rabbinic literature, Sarah is considered Abraham's niece (the daughter of his brother, Haran
Abraham's son Isaac married Rebekah, his first cousin once removed, the granddaughter of his father's brother Nahor and niece Milcah
Isaac and Rebekah's firstborn son Esau married his cousin Mahalah, daughter of his father's brother Ishmael
While their second son Jacob married his cousins Leah and Rachel, daughters of his mother's brother Laban.
The biblical character Amram married his paternal aunt, Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses.
Yeah ignoring the Bible qualifies as a dodge.
Please cite the cite either the CCC or the Code of Canon Law that states the Catholic owns the concept of marriage and how the Catholic Church views marriages of non-Catholics. You will want to start with Section 1108. It is a simple request.
No they don't, they recognize virtually all marriages which are between consenting adults and done according to law. Annulment is simply church sanctioned divorce and all this nonsense about *valid* marriages are nothing more than an excuse to get out of a marriage one no longer wants to be in, all for a fee, of course.
You are completely wrong on this and you certainly didn't learn that in catechism class in which you could have paid more attention.