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I'm in no way here to argue, or debate any material presented in this thread. I have my own thoughts, and will keep them to myself for a change.
I am here to comment on annulment. Perhaps others participating in this thread are Catholic, and more informed than myself, if that is the case I would invite them to speak up.
Even after a legal marriage, according to the Catholic Church, the marriage must be declared valid by the church. Even after a legal divorce, the same applies. An annulment is merely a decleration by the Church that the marriage wasn't valid in the first place. It doesn't have anything to do with love, or intent, or even the having of children, it's just saying that in the eyes of the Church, the marriage was not valid. Doesn't mean you were living in sin, doesn't mean the children are bastards...really affects nothing but ones standing in the Roman Catholic Church.
A number of years after our divorce, my former wife asked for an annulment, even though we had children, and I had remarried. I granted her request (very hard to get one without former spouses cooperation), because she wanted to marry a very good man, and they both wanted it to be a Catholic wedding...something she could not have done as things stood at the time. The point being that regardless of anything else he might, or might not have done, the annulment should have no bearing on considering him for office.
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