Boris and Carrie have got married!

If Harry got married in a catholic church with the same history I would be asking questions.

WadesNan

Wow - I really can't believe all the nasty unpleasant comments on this thread against a couple who have just got married.

It must be wonderful to have never made a mistake or wrong decision in your life.

GN used to be a place where people could air their views without resorting to snide remarks - unfortunately those days are long gone - one of the reasons I no longer post.

I agree WadesNan
Where are the people who leap to Prince Harry's defence but are not defending a couple who have just got married?

aggie

I am with Marydoll , I am puzzled as to how the Church laws get interpreted , my sister had to get out of a bad marriage , no children and she had to get an annulment, thoroughly unpleasant business , so her ex could get married ! And very costly

Yes, I'm sure all/most of us on here have similar stories within our own families and that might be why people feel strongly about it.

I think it's perfectly reasonable for people to question a church that makes moral judgements on other people. I certainly havent commented on the morality of any of the behaviour. I would be hypocritical to do that for a start.

I don't think people are bothered about him remarrying - Im certainly not, it is the lack of morality and misogyny he represents, he even paid for someone's abortion. Then to get married in a Catholic Cathedral just makes a mockery of the sacrament of marriage but maybe he is a born again Catholic, who knows? I suppose at least he doesn't use contraception, maybe that swung it for him.

I thought her dress and head dress was lovely

I am with Marydoll , I am puzzled as to how the Church laws get interpreted , my sister had to get out of a bad marriage , no children and she had to get an annulment, thoroughly unpleasant business , so her ex could get married ! And very costly

The fact that so many people are questioning the logic of the catholic church in allowing Boris and Carrie to marry in Westminster Cathedral of all places, only goes to show how the vast majority are flummoxed by paradoxical catholic edicts, I came to terms with its buffoonery years ago! I don't even bother to question the constant contradictory nonsense such as this, although I understand why others do. Allowing Boris to have such a high profile catholic ceremony sends out an awful message to those adherents who have tried to live a life in accordance with the church's teaching and fell at one of their major hurdles, because they married in a catholic church and divorced, sometimes for the most understandable reasons, but, if they chose to marry again, are denied the sacrament of communion as a result. Which is a big deal and source of pain to many a practising catholic.

However when I look around me at the people I know who still practice, in this country at any rate, I feel they cherry pick the bits they like, well of course understandably that's the only way it's palatable after all we have come to know about its very dark history.

There are of course, in spite of all the poisonous water that has flowed under the bridge, still some good people within the church, it must be so hard for them! I rejected it totally when I was younger, these days I'm quite ambivalent about it, still a believer but not in the behemoth of the church itself, where the essence of Jesus message was lost centuries ago. Every so often, when something such as this latest wedding debacle comes to light, people could be forgiven for thinking the church is embracing life in the modern age, they'd be wrong, in many respects its still right back there in the unforgiving 12th century.

It's not the getting married which bothers me, good luck to them. As has been said, we all make mistakes. It's the hypocrisy of getting married in the Catholic church and the Church itself sanctioning it, when so many others have unfairly been refused a Catholic blessing.

lemsip

Alegrias1 watching from the side lines ready to step in then. not quite staying out of this.

Oh, grow up.

Alegrias, you’re probably right to stay out of it. Most likely I should have too, but I don’t like the unpleasantness I’m seeing here.

Some good news good luck to them. Did it quietly well done.

Alegrias1 watching from the side lines ready to step in then. not quite staying out of this.

MayBee70

I think it was pretty two faced of her to wear white. I wonder if there’s any significance in the fact that she didn’t wear a veil? Was it from choice or was she not allowed to? I know how betrayed children feel when their father leaves their mother for another woman so all I can think of is how his (acknowledged) children must be feeling now.

Another famous woman got married in white, with a veil too. Many people vilify posters who comment on that person, but it’s okay to make unpleasant comments about Carrie!

I wish them well but assume that Mrs Johnson the Third knows what she is letting herself in for. She has the child and no doubt a title when BJ resigns for health reasons and is sent to the House of Lords.

Oh, I've been staying out of this because the PM getting married is very low on my list of priorities just now.

But calling Carrie a "marriage breaker" is completely out of order, whatever her failings. We're not living in the 19th Century.

It takes two to tango.

WadesNan

Wow - I really can't believe all the nasty unpleasant comments on this thread against a couple who have just got married.

It must be wonderful to have never made a mistake or wrong decision in your life.

GN used to be a place where people could air their views without resorting to snide remarks - unfortunately those days are long gone - one of the reasons I no longer post.

You are so right here WadesNan. If anything, it gets worse all the time. Lots of people get married more than once these days, including many Gransnetters. Unfortunately marriages break down for many reasons and normally people aren’t vilified because their marriage has ended, whatever the reasons, which after all, are nothing to do with the rest of us.

I think it was pretty two faced of her to wear white. I wonder if there’s any significance in the fact that she didn’t wear a veil? Was it from choice or was she not allowed to? I know how betrayed children feel when their father leaves their mother for another woman so all I can think of is how his (acknowledged) children must be feeling now.

I’ve just seen a small item on SkyNews about the wedding, and one picture of them on the day. Boris and Carrie are apparently both baptised Catholics, and Boris was confirmed into the the Church of England. Apparently Carrie is a practicing catholic. They were married yesterday in a small ceremony with no more than thirty guests. I wish them well, as I would to any other newly married couple.

Won’t it be difficult for him to have little dalliances now due to having 24 hour police protection? He therefore is totally dependent on his now wife for (ahem) everything. If he controls the country she pretty much controls him. So much for ‘taking back control’. Even worse that she’s a marriage breaker with expensive tastes who, along with her husband has been sacked from a previous job for wrongdoings. Interesting that the first newspapers to get the news were The Torygraph and The Scum.

Well I hope they have a long and happy union. As a former RC myself I hope the press aren't going to seize on him every time he doesn't go to Mass etc. I wish them both well.

well said wadesnan

pretty dress. i like the sleeves.

I am sorry if people having different views to you makes you uncomfortable. I have made lots of mistakes that's why I recognise some of them.

Wow - I really can't believe all the nasty unpleasant comments on this thread against a couple who have just got married.

It must be wonderful to have never made a mistake or wrong decision in your life.

GN used to be a place where people could air their views without resorting to snide remarks - unfortunately those days are long gone - one of the reasons I no longer post.

Pippa22

Boris has married his mistress creating a vacancy ! Cynical me...

But look at the compensation she gets (see my post @ 9.57).

I'm sure she'll be very good at turning a blind eye to little infidelities.

well Carolie Louise B Symonds has raised her status at number 10.
photo of wedding on dm now