Even 'big ticket' edicts and strictures straight from Jesus' mouth, like not remarrying following divorce, can be totally ignored by current day Christians and they don't feel one particle of apprehension about it, apparently, because despite claiming to be so fully and completely filled with belief in the Jesus, nevertheless on this matter, THEY know better than Christ does.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.