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To: sitetest

My understanding, Sitetest (and this is a question to you) is that one of the most straight forward reasons for legit annulments from the Church is if one person was under the influence of substance abuse at the time of marriage, alcoholic or otherwise.

The paperwork I recall reading stated that this was because it was impossible for someone to truly enter into the compacts professed to the other and the Church in that altered and dependent state.

Does that jive with your knowledge?


65 posted on 06/20/2014 11:55:39 AM PDT by Individual Rights in NJ (I don't even know what to say anymore..)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
Dear Individual Rights in NJ,

I don't know whether substance abuse at the time of the wedding is a particularly common ground, but lack of effective consent certainly is pretty common. Usually, though, lack of consent is attributed to extreme immaturity, or failure to understand the sacramental nature of marriage. But certainly, folks who are not sober, especially at the time of taking their actual vows, have an impaired ability to provide effective consent.


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72 posted on 06/20/2014 12:09:20 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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