Grey’s Anatomy” actress Katherine Heigl marries
Heigl won an Emmy in September for her role as an adulterous medic in the ABC network’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” which follows the lives and loves of physicians at a Seattle hospital.
This is an error. Only a married person can commit adultery. Heigl’s character was not married.
Kat
I think our reference was fine. Individual state laws and religious definitions vary widely on this question, and it is by no means as simple as saying only a married person can commit adultery. Just one example offered by our religion editor, Tom Heneghan, from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Website:
IV. Offenses Against the Dignity of Marriage
- Adultery refers to marital infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another party, have sexual relations-even transient ones-they commit adultery.
GBU Editor
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- Posted by Gail CarpenterThere may be a distinction between the Catholic Church’s view as expressed above and the legal position.
My understanding is that if an unmarried person engages in sexual intercourse with a married person, the former has committed fornication, while the latter has committed adultery.
I write this, though, from memory alone.
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