Heterosexual marriage is the ONLY marriage recognized by God, and reaffirmed by Jesus as God’s original intention for male-female union.
Excuse me, but that sounds very un-secular. How can one support the notion that secular marriage trumps religious definitions, and then at the same time argue that religious definitions supersede secular ones? Sorry, but that just doesn't work for me.
At issue is Catholic annulment of THAT God-ordained union, not unions which are but fantasies in the mind of perverse men and women.
You know what seems funny to me? That when somebody brings up Catholic annulments around a Protestant they suddenly get real big on the indissolubility of marriage. It is all about "What God has joined" and so on. But, I never hear about that regarding divorce courts. Where is all the horror about secular courts ending marriages? Where is the all the defensiveness about "that God-ordained union" when people decide to just end it and go their separate ways? I don't hear any outrage that courts, and even spouses themselves, think they can sever what God joined, but let the Church define what constitutes her own sacraments, and then it is all about indissolubility. That is amusing to me.
You have a valid critique of Protestant hypocrisy in divorce. Personally I hate divorce. Very destructive.