Thank you for your work on this subject, Kevin. It is a virtuous, though I submit, impossible solution to an impossible problem. The trouble is that, as we understand it, God will not extend mercy to those who tell him they are sorry for having sinned but are not so sorry that they intend not to do the same thing at the next opportunity. That's how it is with divorce and re-marriage. Taking Jesus literally, divorce never really takes place. (Hence the need for annulment.) So if a divorced person marries another without obtaining an annulment, the first marriage remains in effect in God's eyes, and any sexual relations with the new spouse are adulterous.  The divorced spouse is in the position of saying he's sorry for having divorced, sorry for having re-married, and sorry for having committed adultery, but given the chance to commit adultery again with the new spouse, will take it. This is the situation we just discussed, where God does not have mercy on the recalcitrant sinner.