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A real-life anecdote for you (no names being used) with an interesting conclusion -
Someone I am good friends with is Catholic, and wants to get married to someone who is secular and was divorced from a previous marriage some years ago. Legally, that marriage is over, and both individuals are free to re-marry. The "politics" ensured that the laws were in place to allow the marriage to end properly so that each individual could move on.
Now then, my poor Catholic friend loves this individual tremendously and they both feel the same and can't wait to get married. But, despite the fact that the "secular" person is legally divorced, the Catholic church will not allow the wedding to proceed in a Catholic church because, according to the Church, this person's previous marriage was final and binding and despite the "legal" divorce, any attempt to remarry will actually be a sinful act of adultery in the eyes of the Catholic Church. In other words, the political laws that have been devised to allow marriages to end meaningfully mean nothing to Catholic "laws", which act outside of normal law and render the divorce meaningless.
The result is that the secular individual must convert to Catholicism (which they have agreed to do in order to marry) and go through a very lengthy and somewhat humiliating religious annulment in order to render the previous marriage "finished". This is proving to be an extremely upsetting and traumatic experience for both individuals, both of whom are very nice people and do not deserve this sad treatment. So much for religious support to loyal and faithful followers eh?
Anyway the point of this being that this situation is highly political in terms of the religious viewpoint. Politics isn't just about economy, health, and education. In its true meaning it is a process by which groups make decisions, usually under the influence of a central authority. My friend's current situation is very political, being played out against the backdrop of a rather harsh Church, and proves that politics and religion are really twisted together so tightly that to attempt to separate them is futile.
