I never questioned that civil divorce nullifies civil law. But a sealing is higher than civil law. A marraige per celestial law is not nullified by civil law, unless your theology runs completely counter to LDS theology. This is not debatable, it is not arguable, it is fact, celestial law does not care one whit about civil law. So, given that fact, how is the contradiction dealt with? Pretending that the contradiction does not exist hardly make it go away any more than putting your fingers in your ears and saying "Nah, Nah, Nah" makes the aggrivating effect go away. Edit: The problem is in practice, American Mormons give the US government a lot of celestial authority that our doctrine and our theology does not. I have not met a single Brit, Italian, German, Swiss, French, Spanish, or any other LDS Church member who would believe that their government marriage impacted their celestial marriage. It is only in the US, that we make this problem exist.