Dcn. Gary “It takes all that I have not get emotional every time this topic comes up.” Okay, then I think I should not engage your comments in future. Sorry if my words were a bother to you personally.
Dan, thx for your kind words. I can write for an ‘amateur’ audience, but it has to be canonically cogent, too, lest i argue in vain. You seem to find my canonical arguments, well, plausible at least.
Triumphguy (I’m guessing you mean the bike, not the 1960s catholic journal!) I have credentials equivalent to yours in the common law tradition and, unless you’re being shy, rather more than you in canon law. That just means I can spot the important differences in how canon law works (beyond what a quick read of canon 16 might suggest) more quickly than my common law confreres can. I think my read is quite sound, canonically. Perhaps I am wrong.
