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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not one, but two, Catholic friends who were horrified to find out that my Catholic husband and I are in an "invalid marriage due to lack of form".  We were married in my Protestant church without dispensation from the Catholic church.  One of them won't even speak to my husband because she considers him living in sin.  The other mentions, every time he sees us, that we need to get our marriage convalidated so we're "really married".

But both are vehemently pro-same sex marriage.  Can any Catholics explain why (some? most?) Catholics are accepting of same sex marriage, but consider my husband and I just live-in lovers?  I know lots of Catholics pick and choose rules, but it seems strange to pick and choose rules specific to marriage (or any of subset of Catholic rules, but this is the one that affects me).[/quote]

These are entirely different issues.  One issue is about what Catholics should do as Catholics and one issue is about whether people who may or may not be Catholics should have civil rights. For praciticing Catholics, marriage is a sacarment, not just a legal arrangment.  It's a very serious sacrament, equivelant to taking holy orders for a nun or a priest.

People who are professed Catholics and who take communion are obligated to follow the forms of marriage prescribed by the Church. If you have fatih, you should live your faith. Your husband is not doing so and is a bad Catholic.  Catholics are required to have a sacramental marriage, blessed by the Church.

That doesn't mean that people who are NOT Catholic should be deprived of their civil rights to marry.  They should be allowed to marry. That doens't mean the Catholic Church is going to recognize that marriage as a sacramental marriage regardless of whether you are gay or staight.

Your friend is holding your marriage to the standard set forth by the Church, because your husband is Catholic.  He has an obligation to meet the standard set out by the Church if he is going to be a Catholic.  Other people don't have to, and you don't have to, but he does. [/quote]

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