[erkelly]

How do you know he is a saint? Did the Lord give you some special divination powers? Is the Lord Himself significantly different than I have come to know Him first during many difficult years, and now a painful and fatal illness? Indeed, while the Holy Spirit has not endowed me with any special insight just the ordinary insights from having lived to the 70th decade of my life, I have known a few saints. In my experience, the Saint would rejoice that although he lost his beloved wife, the child born of their love lives!

[Wuli]

as I said, and as the disciples knew, some moral quandries between two moral concerns, do not always in every circumstance povide us with the inspiration to the same result, any more than G-d answers all our prayers with the same result we might expect in our lives

I do not object to others with moral concerns on the man’s decisions, and not because I might agree with them, only because their Liberty gives them the right to theem. I do object to blanket “zero tolerance” translations of them into LEGAL mandates against the Liberty of others, in EVERY circumstance.

Whether I reject the husband’s moral position, or not, I defend his legal right in Liberty to make it. He knows that it is an account ONLY G-d will eventually judge him on. I hope everyone casting stones is prepared for the same extremity of judgement they wish to pass on this man, for ALL THEIR indescretions, which as G-d says will be their lot. Maybe in his lifetime, the man may “repent” (change of mind about) his decision, and meet with G-d in prayer on the subject; who knows. Meanwhile I support him as I believe the law should, whether it would be my decision if I were in his shoes or not.