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To: MeanWestTexan

I know the official policy of Forman is homosexual marriage in the US but what is the status of homosexual marriage in Israel? If anyone knows I would appreciate an answer.


11 posted on 01/05/2007 3:26:53 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
I know the official policy of Forman is homosexual marriage in the US but what is the status of homosexual marriage in Israel? If anyone knows I would appreciate an answer.

Though a secular state, personal matters including marriage are controlled by the religious institutions. There are 14 or 15, Judaism (not Reform or Conservative), Islam, the rest various Christian denominations. Perhaps Bahai, they've been asking. If you're a Jew you get one wife, and no one will marry you to a non Jew. In Israel, marriages in other nations are recognized. If you're Muslim, you get four, and the kids all get welfare if needed. If a denomination decided to recognize gay marriage, I've no idea what would happen, but my guess Israel's various religious institutions will be behind America's courts on that one.

Gay parades, that's something else.

14 posted on 01/05/2007 3:39:17 PM PST by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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To: shrinkermd

BTW, the idea of eliminating civil marriage altogether and leaving it to the various religious institutions is an interesing on. In theory I'd be supportive, though here in the US we'd have 14,000, not 14.


15 posted on 01/05/2007 3:41:31 PM PST by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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