The Protestant Episcopal Church numbers many a human pillar who has been divorced and remarried. Perennially the Church faces a question which will not be downed: What to do about such good people who get civil divorces, wish to remarry in church? The Episcopal canon on marriage, as liberalized in 1931, is still strict and specific: rectors may marry only those divorced persons who are 1) innocent parties in divorces for adultery; 2) innocent partners in marriages annulled for premarital cause. But not a few parsons, in dioceses with liberal bishops, marry divorcees anyway and get away with it.
Two years ago,...
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