Originally posted by Gatetrixer
I know a woman who was married to a man in the church for 10+ years, they had kids and a regular marriage until they broke up. I also know another man who was divorced from his wife because she stopped "sleeping" with him. Both were granted annullments. Only the committee that grants or refuses annullments truly knows why one case may get approved and another gets turned down.
And, as somebody already mentioned, if they couldn't get married in the church, there's always a possibility of another minister doing the ceremony and the marriage being blessed by a priest later. I don't know a lot about that possibility, or weather it's just as valid of a marriage in the church as one performed by apriest.
I also don't know how the military works, but if MASH is any example (yes, sad, I know), then the chaplain assigned to the base - whatever his denomination - would have the authority to perform a ceremony in any Faith. This is set up so all faiths have their religious ceremonies when only one chaplain is assigned to each unit. (And if they have just one chaplain informed of the SGC and its big secret, they're surely not going to bring in another one.)
On a side note, I would enjoy seeing Jack and Sam go through pre-Cana. <vbg>
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