Dear Life of the Lay:  you are about eighty years too late. The horse is out of the barn. When marriage annulments began to be given on psychological bases, rather than physical, the certainty of "permanency" began to crack. As my canon law professor said, "ANY marriage can be annulled, if you really want to." I don't hear bishops thundering against divorced candidates for office; we have accepted civil divorce as normal. Isn't that a slippery slope? A lot of our issues date back well before Vatican II.