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Joe Kennedy III engaged to be married
Fort Worth Star Telegram ^ | January 13, 2012

Posted on 01/14/2012 7:11:44 AM PST by Zakeet

It's been a busy month for Joseph Kennedy III.

The son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy is engaged to be married to Lauren Anne Birchfield, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate.

The announcement comes a little more than a week after the 31-year-old Kennedy formed an exploratory committee as a first step toward a run for the U.S. House seat held by retiring Rep. Barney Frank.

(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: barneyfrank; joekennedy; joekennedyiii; josephkennedyiii; kennedy; laurenannebirchfield; marriage; robertfkennedy; silverspoons; theonepercent
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To: jimbo123

Pass that to Joe 3’s mummy Sheila Rauch Kennedy

When Joe 2 knocked up his secretary and wanted an “annulment” so he could marry again and remain an unfaithful catholic, she refused to cooperate, took on the Kennedys and the Catholic church, and won


41 posted on 01/14/2012 8:52:23 AM PST by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common- Voltaire)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Good girls always seem attracted to bad boys.


42 posted on 01/14/2012 9:02:55 AM PST by monocle
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To: Zakeet

That family is so unattractive. JFK Jr., of course was the only exception.


43 posted on 01/14/2012 9:03:04 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: silverleaf

yes—from Wiki. entry on Joe II:
(Joe II married Sheila Rauch in 1979)


The couple had twin sons, Matthew Rauch Kennedy and Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (born 1980, in Boston); and (they) were legally divorced in 1991. Two years later, Kennedy asked the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston for an annulment of the marriage on the grounds of “lack of due discretion of judgment”, meaning that he was mentally incapable of entering into marriage at the time of his wedding. An annulment would give the marriage the status of never having existed, and allow Kennedy to marry Anne Elizabeth “Beth” Kelly—his former staff member—in a Roman Catholic ceremony, as well as allow him to participate in other sacraments of the church, such as Holy Communion, not available to a divorced person who remarries. Rauch refused to agree to the annulment, and Kennedy married Kelly (born April 3, 1957) in a non-Catholic civil ceremony on October 23, 1993.

The Boston Archdiocese initially granted Kennedy the annulment, which was only discovered by Rauch after the decision in 1996. Rauch, who is an Episcopalian, wrote a book Shattered Faith: A Woman’s Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annulling Her Marriage explaining that she was opposed to the concept of annulment, because it meant in Roman Catholic theology that the marriage had never actually existed, and claiming that the Kennedy family influence made it possible to unilaterally “cancel” a twelve-year marriage. A tribunal decision in favour of annulment is automatically appealed, and the decision is not effective until a second, conforming, sentence is granted. Instead of allowing the appeal to take place in the United States, Rauch appealed directly to the Holy See.

The original decision was overturned by the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Rota, in 2005. Rauch was informed of the decision by the Boston Archdiocese in 2007. As the first decision was never confirmed, there was no time at which the Church declared the marriage to be null or gave Kennedy permission to remarry.

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44 posted on 01/14/2012 9:03:32 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Mamzelle
Stupid Kennedy men married cows with liquified brains to produce this hoard of ugly whelps...

SO TRUE!I was trying to be nice in saying the same thing.

45 posted on 01/14/2012 9:06:34 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: submarinerswife
. JFK Jr., of course was the only exception.

Looks were all he had, he was as dumb as a stump, and he paid for it in the end with his life (and took two innocent people with him).

46 posted on 01/14/2012 9:06:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Who in the heck decided that the Kennedys are American royalty in the first place???????

Joe Kennedy did. Right after he bought the Ambassadorship to London with the million he made during prohibition.

47 posted on 01/14/2012 9:13:17 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Zakeet

The Kennedys are like cockroaches. Just when you think you have a handle on the problem more pop-up.


48 posted on 01/14/2012 9:28:38 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
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To: Zakeet

“...after the 31-year-old Kennedy formed an exploratory committee”

For those that know the Kennedy family history, this term could have multiple meanings.


49 posted on 01/14/2012 9:33:59 AM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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To: Zakeet

Ah, forgive me folks but why in the wide world ‘o’ sports is something like this appearing here? Who gives a rip about the f’ing Kennedys?


50 posted on 01/14/2012 9:38:31 AM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: yldstrk

“he’ll cheat on her”

I rather IGNORANT thing to say. If you knew anything about Kennedy history, you’d realize that he’s already cheating on her.

...but I’ll forgive you.


51 posted on 01/14/2012 9:41:24 AM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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To: Zakeet; ml/nj; SunkenCiv; theothercheek; Liz; LottieDah; Clintonfatigued; pabianice; massgopguy; ...
Is this Joe Kennedy III the son of the Joe Kennedy who promotes Hugo Chavez's CITGO oil heating program on television ads?
52 posted on 01/14/2012 9:56:07 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Justice Seeker

Mmmmmm......if he loses the race, he can always become
a spox for Crest Optic White and Pantene hair conditioner.

53 posted on 01/14/2012 10:25:40 AM PST by Liz
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To: Zakeet

Kennedys are the Kardashians of the east coast.


54 posted on 01/14/2012 10:52:47 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

The Kardashians never killed anybody.


55 posted on 01/14/2012 10:56:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: submarinerswife
When it comes to Kennedys, I have no nice left in me.

Remember when that great greasy barrel of cheap bourbon died, and we were all told by the media how much we loved and admired him, and to line up at the sidewalks as his overloaded hearse drove by (the rear tires about to burst)--?

And the cameras showed that no one was lining up on those sidewalks to watch his Last Ride (which should have been over the Chappequidick Bridge)--there's not as much love out there for these buck-toothed airheads, despite the gushing and fawning of the prostitute press.

I was hoping we could go one without the name "Kennedy" in politics, at least for a few more years. Looking at one is like looking at your cat's lastest hairball, and knowing you're going to end up having to clean it up.

56 posted on 01/14/2012 11:50:35 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Zakeet

The "Camelot Cousin" and "his long-time GalPal" (Boston Herald).

57 posted on 01/14/2012 12:56:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: AU72

Can you guess the troubled life that will happen to any children from this marriage.


58 posted on 01/14/2012 2:43:31 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: justiceseeker93

I think so:

http://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+kennedy+citgo+hugo+chavez


59 posted on 01/14/2012 6:39:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: AU72
Ditto your condolences to this poor woman. When will the accursed Kennedy spawn drop from the public scene? Gag!
60 posted on 01/14/2012 9:34:48 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (11)
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