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So... North Korea has a nuclear weapon, a newborn baby was thrown out of a moving car in Florida, and Chuck and Camilla are getting married. And somehow, Matt Lauer still manages to interupt everyone he talks to with moronic comments on what they're trying to say.
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I might actually start to do that myself...the amount of sanctimonious jibber-jabber that has been on the news about Chuck and Camilla remarrying has been giving me heartburn.
Exactly why people think their opinion on why the prospect of their marriage is THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO CIVILISATION EVER is vitally important escapes me.
Where's the antacid?
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Incidentally if they just had a hitman kill Camilla's ex then everything would be fine and dandy. Well as far as the Church of England are concerned, and their opinion is so vital to the future of British society isn't it?
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Here in Florida, only babies that can roll with the punches make the grade.
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Prince William: "So THAT'S what you had my mommy offed for?"
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quote:Originally posted by Marauth: Incidentally if they just had a hitman kill Camilla's ex then everything would be fine and dandy. Well as far as the Church of England are concerned, and their opinion is so vital to the future of British society isn't it?
Oh yeah, then everything would be peachy for them! :-) As for their opinion, in mine it's about as important as Charles actually becoming King...the way some people have been talking, you would think the Monarch actually *did* something that mattered, and that this marriage would somehow seriously derail British society.
The guy's what? Approaching his 60s or in them already? Ok, I don't agree with the idea of the Royalty but I'm not that cruel that I would insist a man be barred from marrying someone he obviously has deep feelings for. I suppose I just don't hold with all these people on the news and the "have your say" section of the BBC website (to name one) that predict the end of the world over this one.
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It's ironic this is the same thing that led to Elizabeth II's uncle abdicating - he married a yankee woman who was divorced. You'd think Charles would remember and maybe wait till he's in power, then marry Camilla and change the church law (he would be head of the CofE then)
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The inner workings of the House of Windsor is, like world politics in general, are rather childish and boring. If the man has been in love with the lady for all this time, why didn't he just marry her in the first place. Bleh. There. Problem solved.
I pretty much wanted to start a conversation on how bad an interviewer Matt Lauer is...
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HA! Floridians DONT kill our babies for fun!
GO figure.
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Why would the Church of England have anything against divorce, anyway? I mean, the right to divorce, especially among the royalty, was its major founding principle, after all.
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From what I've gathered, it's not so much that they're divorced as it is that her ex-husband is still alive. What difference that makes (if any) I have no answer for.
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Well, I don't know about Anglicans, but, if they're anything like Catholics in that regard: As long as the ex-spouse is still alive, if the church doesn't consider divorce to be proper, then they consider the couple still to be married. Thus, re-marriage would constitute polygamy. If the ex-spouse dies, the divorce is still meaningless to the church, but they now consider her a widow. Thus, re-marriage isn't a problem. But, as I said, that's how it works for Catholics. Anglicans may be different.
Besides, the fact remains that, when Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon was still alive, and, when he married both Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, Anne of Cleves was still alive.
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Forcing the abdication of Edward VIII for planning to marry a divorcee was merely a ploy anyway. The Establishment found him to be too much of a meddler.
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