The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article over the weekend that examines the case of a divorced couple, with the ex-husband seeking an annulment over the ex-wife’s objections.

The ex-wife, a Protestant, is not at all bothered that her husband divorced her and “re-married”, contrary to the clear teachings of Jesus Christ.  The thought of renouncing the vows you make to the person you promise to love for the rest of your life is apparently no big deal (by the way, for each of them it was their second marriage).  What bothers this woman is the thought that her second marriage “never happened”.

Her argument seems to be, “We promised to love each other and remain together until the day we died, and that was a valid promise, dammit! even though we’ve both broken that promise and are sleeping with other people (and I’m fine with that) – other people that we’re promising to love and live with for the rest of our lives (as we did our first spouses).  Anyway, all of that breaking of vows and lifting your leg and pissing on marriage is no big deal.  What bothers me is if some jack ass in the Catholic Church is going to tell me that the marriage that we both desecrated by breaking our vows and moving on to other people never happened!  It sure the hell did, which is why we both walked away from it!”

Welcome to the modern world.