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SANFORD ASKS FOR PRIVACY, PRAYERS IN DEALING WITH FORMAL SPLIT FROM WIFE
Only hours after his wife said she was filing for divorce, Gov. Mark Sanford is speaking out.
The embattled governor asked for privacy and prayers in dealing with his formal split from wife Jenny, which is the result of his infidelity with a woman in Argentina named Maria Belen Chapur.
“While it is not the course I would have hoped for, or would choose, I want to take full responsibility for the moral failure that led us to this tragic point,” Sanford said in a statement. “Jenny is a great person, and has been a remarkable wife, mother and First Lady. She has been more than gracious these last six months and gone above and beyond in her patience and commitment to put the needs of others in front of her own. While our family structure may change, I know that we will both work earnestly to be the best mom and dad we can be to four of the finest boys on earth.
“I will join with her in asking the press to respect our shared desire for privacy as we quietly move forward. We respectively ask for your prayers,” he said.
The Sanfords, who have four boys, have been living apart for at least four months since Jenny made a very public departure from the governor’s mansion.
The couple’s divorce papers, which were filed Friday morning in Charleston County, have also been made public.
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The family court filing states that Gov. Sanford “engaged in a sexual relationship with a woman other than [his wife]” — an affair that was “not condoned.”
On Wednesday, Jenny Sanford was named one of Barbara Walters’ 10 most fascinating people of 2009. On the same day, a House judiciary committee voted against impeaching the governor over allegations that he broke state ethics laws.
I would addres this comment to the Honorable Sanford, but he is not honorable.
First and foremost as a political figure – not to mention a husband – you are called to serve. Service, as with any type of solider, requires sacrifice. You have not sacrificed your fleshly desires to honor your commitment to the sanctity of marriage, the honor of your children (who are at such a young and impressionable age right now), nor have you shown any honor the the faith that your wife is clinging to right now. And if you cannot honor your commitment to your wife and family, how in God’s name can you honor the state of South Carolina and the United States by your service. Shame on you, sir.
It is with the attitude you currently have – I want what I want and I want it now no matter who gets hurt – that is presently destroying our country.
As the family goes, so goes the country.
God helps us all.
Argentine news is reporting Maria Chapur is pregnant with south carolina governors child.
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No, cancerman, they’re not.
nope Maria is not pregnant .
she is delighted at the news
A VINCULO MATRIMONII – Lat. ‘from the bond of marriage’. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.
Happily, South Carolina allows a person found liable for adultery to marry their paramour after their divorce. I’ve had clients meet their mistress in the parking lot after a divorce hearing and tear right into the Probate Court for a marriage license. I don’t recommend it, but I’ve seen it done.