How they knew what she was telling her children might have something to do with O’Reilly, who also donated over $65,000 to New York Catholic parishes and schools in 2011, and as Gawker reports, “carries considerable weight in the archdiocese.”
Is that all we could complain about O’Reilly? No. He’s gone further. As a court document reads:
“The mother claimed that the [father] had repeatedly violated conditions of the agreement,” says a docket entry that Gawker identified as O’Reilly and McPhilmy’s case. “The mother further alleged that, after the execution of the agreement, the father had hired the children’s therapist as a full-time employee to perform virtually all of his parental duties. … The mother’s affidavit contained specific allegations concerning the father’s repeated violations of the custody provisions of the agreement since its inception. … Moreover, the full-time employment of the children’s therapist, the person designated in the agreement as a neutral third-party ‘arbitrator’ of custodial disputes, by the father, constitutes a significant change of circumstance which could undermine the integrity of the agreement’s custodial provisions.”
In other words, he corrupted the terms of having a neutral third party by hiring her in as his full time employee. So he wants to take her leverage, as well as her access to heaven. Why not take away having been ever married in the first place?
And that’s another step O’Reilly is taking. He is seeking to have his entire marriage annulled, a term in the Catholic Church which means it never existed whatsoever, they were never married, it was just a dream — 15-years of nothing.
Well it is difficult to defend Western values of the sanctity of marriage with one’s words and person. The declining marriage rates in countries that allow gays to marry may be a legitimate concern, but perhaps those rates need no extra help from gays?