I have no problem with the 'state' recognizing and respecting religious constraints freely entered into by marrying couples. If they forever forsake all others in a ceremony, I see a compelling 1st Amendment argument in prohibiting either of them from from ever remarrying another as long as they both shall live.
That the courts have not gone that way is a bitter disappoint to me.
That the courts have not gone that way is a bitter disappoint to me.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.