She shivered. "How do you know?"

"He cannot help himself. The canon of the Episcopal Church forbids a

clergyman to marry one who has been divorced for any cause except

adultery. The Catholic Church goes one step further and forbids

altogether the remarriage of divorced persons. It does not recognize

divorce. A large number of the clergy of your church are fiercely

agitating the adoption of a similar absolute restriction. The two

churches--and their attitude has stirred up other denominations--are

seeking to fasten upon the American conscience an ideal inconsistent

with the free development of human society."

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