[Mfkmmof4]

Isn't this a violation of church and state?

[Alouette]

Secular law must never be used to enforce halachah! To do so will be the means of using secular law to enforce sharia.

Jewish feminists are DEAD WRONG on this.

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[Tabi Katz]

Isn't this a violation of church and state?

If this isn't, I don't know what is! Secular lawmakers should keep their big noses out of strictly religious affairs. But, I don't see the left crying foul anytime soon.

[BlessedBeGod]

Unbelievable. I'm speechless.

[sarasmom]

Yes.

[gridlock]

The government should get out of the marriage business. All they can do is destroy the institution. The irreversible interests of the state and the interests of the various religious and cultural traditions involved are ultimately incompatible.

The state could be in the business of registering domestic partnerships, if that turns out to be a necessary thing. For the purposes of child custody or inheritance, perhaps this would be a useful thing. But whatever the state does should be completely apart from any religious or cultural institution of marriage.

That way the state can do whatever it wants to do with it's domestic partnership regulations, and it can leave traditional marriage to others.

[Porterville]

Since when does Bill Clinton care about Jewish women?.... Oh, never mind.

[sheik yerbouty]

Yes it is.