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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (11487)	4/2/2004 3:45:01 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Complain to the Catholic Church why don't you? Anyone come to claim the $10,000 for any credible evidence that Bush was where he said he was during National Guard Duty? No? Ooops. Paid any attention to Neil Bush's divorce lately?

To: tonto who wrote (11487)	4/3/2004 7:54:17 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Who gets an annulment? How is that different from a divorce? In this case you can bet it was tied to a big donation. Divorce is not really permitted in the Catholic Church. If you get divorced, you are not supposed to receive communion, cannot get absolution, you die in sin, cannot go to heaven, etc. By having the marriage annulled, the Church recognizes extraordinary circumstances and wipes the slate clean in a spiritual sense. This does not seem to be the case in this instance. For instance, my mother married my father, who was divorced. Since this is a no-no in the eyes of the Church, she was not allowed to get married in the Church or receive communion. After being married for 40 years, and after my dad's first wife died, the Church declared my father’s first marriage annulled, and thus my mother and father were permitted to marry in the Church etc. As for the civil side, that would depend on local law, but I would doubt any change in alimony or child support would be affected by an annulment from the Church – it would have to be civilly annulled. Personally, me thinks it is all a bunch of hooey, but that’s the way it goes. Most of these "rules" really date back to before the time of Christ. The people in that time recognized the damage that promiscuousness did to these relatively small, close knit communities. They were not totally ignorant to sexually transmitted disease either. Adherence to these types of rules helped society function, and maintained the strength of the species, in a way that is not as applicable today as it was then. I really don't care about Kerry's annulment.