Of weddings royal

A little quote from Harmony Central

From the Episcopal Church's "Tracts for Our Lives"

"Here in the United States the part of the Anglican Communion known as the Episcopal Church has solved the marriage of divorced persons by having the Bishop grant permission for divorced persons to marry. This arrangement permits people to participate in serial marriages while former spouses are still living. As a result of this policy, now permitted by changes in the marriage canons of the Episcopal Church, serial marriages are common among the laity, and many priests and bishops have multiple wives. When the Rt. Rev. James Pike, Bishop of California, died, he had the distinction of being the first bishop in the 1900+ year history of the Church to have three of his wives present at his requiem. More recently the former Bishop of Iowa, the Rt. Rev. Walter Righter, was tried in the Church for ordaining men who practiced Sodomy, in violation of Church Canons. He should have been tried for Adultery, because he had three wives, all living. However, he could not be tried for Adultery because the Episcopal Church had already changed the historic marriage canons and it was now permissible to have three or more wives.

If the canons of the Episcopal Church had been in place in England, King Henry VIII could have had all of his wives without having to make himself Head of the Church, and without beheading two of his wives. King Edward VIII could have married "Wally" and have had a long and enjoyable reign, and Prince Charles could marry Camilla and several other attendants at court and still hope one day to be crowned King.

There are many clergy and laity in the Episcopal Church, who do not believe in the serial marriages and divorces which have become a part of modern culture and of the Church in the United States. They believe in the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ regarding marriage, preserved for us in the written Word of God, the writings of the Church Fathers, and the liturgy of the Church."