Yates remarries before ex-wife's retrial

[contemplative]

Yates remarries before ex-wife’s retrial

JUAN A. LOZANO

HOUSTON Mar 18, 2006 (AP)— Rusty Yates remarried Saturday in the church where the funeral for his five children was held and less than two days before his ex-wife’s murder retrial was to begin.

Yates married Laura Arnold, 41, during a private ceremony attended by 100 people at Clear Lake Church of Christ, where they met.

The church minister said Yates chose to move on with his life while resisting temptation to pity himself or seek revenge on people who may have wronged him.

“It is easy to judge the actions of another, as though we know all the intricate details of their life story. Jesus has warned us against such judgments,” minister Byron Fike said in his prepared statement. He took no questions.

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*And the beat goes on, the beat goes on. *
*Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain. *
La de da de de, la de da de da

 

[dympnha]

Actually, I’m surprised he didn’t get married sooner than this. At 41, hopefully this new wife is a strong person.

 

[bekalc]

Am I the only one whose glad that he’s moving on with his life…From what I understand he was pretty much an innocent victim in all of this.

Losing five kids like that, I hope that perhaps life will be a bit happier for him now…While I don’t believe in divorce, something tells me the previous situation had annulment written all over it…

 

[estesbob]

bekalc:

Am I the only one whose glad that he’s moving on with his life…From what I understand he was pretty much an innocent victim in all of this.

Losing five kids like that, I hope that perhaps life will be a bit happier for him now…While I don’t believe in divorce, something tells me the previous situation had annulment written all over it…

I wish him well. His former wife killed his five children. I can’t imagine the pain and must cause.

 

[jrabs]

May God bless his new union and give them the happiness and peace they need.

 

[Scout]

I’m glad he’s moving on.

Now we just need to keep his wife in jail.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[rayne89]

jrabs:

May God bless his new union and give them the happiness and peace they need.

I thought the Bible states that if you divorce someone and marry another your committing adultery? I realize the man has been through major trauma but that doesn’t change what the Bible says.

 

[b_justb]

rayne89:

I thought the Bible states that if you divorce someone and marry another your committing adultery? I realize the man has been through major trauma but that doesn’t change what the Bible says.

In the original Greek there is an asterisk that notes:

If your crazy wife kills all of your children and then the public blames you for it because you didn’t force her to take her meds; then we’ll let you slide on this because obviously it wasn’t a sacramental marriage.

 

[contemplative]

contemplative:

*And the beat goes on, the beat goes on. *
*Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain. *
La de da de de, la de da de da

:whacky:

 

[mary_s_kid]

Scout:

I’m glad he’s moving on.

Now we just need to keep his wife in jail.

Scout :tiphat:

His wife belongs in a mental institution not jail. From all the reports I read she clearly seems mentally ill.

BTW, I thought they were christian, not Catholic.

 

[rayne89]

mary's kid:

BTW, I thought they were christian, not Catholic.

If this is in reference to statement about divorce and remarriage the same Bible verse is in the protestant Bibles too.

(Oh and Catholics are christians. )

 

[Scout]

mary's kid:

His wife belongs in a mental institution not jail. From all the reports I read she clearly seems mentally ill.

BTW, I thought they were christian, not Catholic.

Those murders were too calculated for her to not know what she was doing. Her mother-in-law would come over every morning and help her with the children. She waited until the one morning when she knew her mother-in-law wouldn’t be there, and then she murdered each one of those children individually. As far as I’m concerned, jail is exactly where she should be.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[dympnha]

One thing I’ve noticed is that Andrea looks MUCH better now. Her hair is cut into a style, her eyes are alert and she’s put on weight.I only hope that when she gets out of jail it will be too late for her to have anymore children.

 

[dympnha]

One more thing, I suspect that while Andrea was severely depressed she was just sane enough to be calculating. She did not attack while another adult was present. She controlled her urge until the moment when Mr. Yates was gone and before his mother got there. As soon as the kids (May they rest in peace. The media was so fascinated with the killer that they forgot about the real victims) were dead she became quiet and docile. I always thought that this was a modern day Medea story.

 

[mary_s_kid]

rayne89:

If this is in reference to statement about divorce and remarriage the same Bible verse is in the protestant Bibles too.

(Oh and Catholics are christians. )

Thanks, I know. Protestants are just much more accepting of divorce and remarriage than Catholics.

 

[mary_s_kid]

Scout:

Those murders were too calculated for her to not know what she was doing. Her mother-in-law would come over every morning and help her with the children. She waited until the one morning when she knew her mother-in-law wouldn’t be there, and then she murdered each one of those children individually. As far as I’m concerned, jail is exactly where she should be.

Scout :tiphat:

Please, I am not saying that what happened wasn’t absolutely horrendous and horrible and worse. All I’m saying is that to me it seems like Andrea wasn’t getting all the help she needed too. Wasn’t she on a suicide watch after it all happened because she couldn’t believe she had killed them? There has to be something seriously mentally wrong for a mother of five to drown each one of her children intentionally.

 

[mary_s_kid]

dympnha:

One more thing, I suspect that while Andrea was severely depressed she was just sane enough to be calculating. She did not attack while another adult was present. She controlled her urge until the moment when Mr. Yates was gone and before his mother got there. As soon as the kids (May they rest in peace. The media was so fascinated with the killer that they forgot about the real victims) were dead she became quiet and docile. I always thought that this was a modern day Medea story.

I thought she had become quiet and docile because she thought she had saved them from the devil.

 

[Scout]

mary's kid:

Please, I am not saying that what happened wasn’t absolutely horrendous and horrible and worse. All I’m saying is that to me it seems like Andrea wasn’t getting all the help she needed too. Wasn’t she on a suicide watch after it all happened because she couldn’t believe she had killed them? There has to be something seriously mentally wrong for a mother of five to drown each one of her children intentionally.

I think she was depressed. I also think she wasn’t getting the help she needed. However, that doesn’t mean that she didn’t know what she was doing when she murdered those children. How she went about doing it just shows that she knew what she was doing when she did it.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[jrabs]

rayne89:

I thought the Bible states that if you divorce someone and marry another your committing adultery? I realize the man has been through major trauma but that doesn’t change what the Bible says.

Sorry, but I am in no position to judge this man’s new marriage. Are you?

So I will once again ask God to bless this union if that is His will and give these people peace.

 

[contemplative]

Understanding the greatness of God’s love and forgiveness is a bit much for just about all of us.

Nazi war criminal Rudolph Hoess killed countless numbers of Jews. Rudolph and his wife had five children who all lived…but many Jews did not because of Rudolph. Rudolph’s wife and children remained his wife and children to the end.

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On receiving Holy Communion, he knelt down in the middle of his cell and cried. He dismissed the priest with the words, “God has forgiven me, but the people will never forgive me!” Anticipating his imminent death and reconciled with God, he wrote a touching and loving farewell letter from prison the next day, April 11, 1947, to his wife and his five children. In it he openly stated the motives for his behavior and admitted his faults, but he also describes his sincere and caring love for his family and describes his return to God: “It was a difficult struggle. Yet I found my faith again in the Lord my God.”

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What God has united man must not divide. ( Matthew 19:3-6)

While it is true that only God is the final judge of everything…we must not turn from the basic laws He has given us all to live by.

Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

Saint Rose of Lima