Man did they give her and Townsend the runaround in this series.

I knew there was a time when the churches wouldn't allow divorce at all but had never heard of the more "modern" living divorced spouse had to die rule. When was that rule done away with? After both the uncle's and Margaret's situations I would imagine the people and press of her day kept hounding the church to change things. I find the rule unusual because the Hebrew and Greek scriptures both say marriage ends at death and fornication, if the innocent mate decides not to forgive.