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Posted on 11/16/2004 6:01:50 AM PST by NYer
NAZARETH, November 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Nazareth District Court ruled 2-1 yesterday that Israel is required to recognize inheritance rights between homosexual couples. The court ruled that since the inheritance law makes an allowance for non-married common-law couples to have inheritance rights, homosexual couples must also be allowed those rights.
The clause in the inheritance law states, "a man and a woman who live a family life in a joint household, yet who are not married to each other," are to be granted the same inheritance rights as married couples. While the state argued that "man and woman" could not be interpreted to mean homosexual partners, Judges Nissim Maman and Gabriella (De Leo) Levy ruled that since that clause was initiated in 1965, "there have been wide-reaching changes in interpretation, and legal rulings have widened the meaning of the term `partners' to include common-law partners, as well as same-sex common-law partners."
Thus the judges said the phrase "man and woman" does not mean "not a man and a man" or "not a woman and a woman," but rather "a couple who is not married."
Judge Menahem Ben-David dissented. "The letter of the law is clear and unequivocal and you cannot read into it any meaning other than what is written - `man and woman.' The letter of the law cannot tolerate the interpretation according to which this would be `man and man'," he wrote.
Ayin Mem applied to the courts to inherit his homosexual partner's estate since no provision was made in his partner's will.
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Activist judges, not just in our own borders. Sad.
Can anything good come from Nazareth?
IOWs Ayin's partner could have easily made a provision in his will which the law would recognize...but he didn't.
*rimshot* :D
The ONLY thing Israel has going for it is a relationship with God....
Without that relationship they are defenseless....
The best thing the anti Israeli islamofascists could hope for is the secularization of Israel and her abandonment of Jehovah God...the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
imo
I dont see a problem with this.
If a gay person dies why shouldnt his common law partner be eligible to inherit. Let him have the money, and for that matter why shouldnt his recognized common law partner be allowed to see him as family. There's nothing wrong with this unless you are going to completely outlaw homosexuality.
Can someone please tell me what language this guy speaks? You know the mystery language in which "man and woman" doesn't really mean "man and woman", because the word man and the word woman are really synonyms...
Grrrrr. OK, this makes me want to hurt people and start taking away breathing rights.
Unfortunately for everyone, the Israeli "Minister of Justice" is a jihadist for atheism.
Can forcing gay rabbis into orthodoxy be far off?
Thank you. I don't see a problem either.
Isaiah 1:4
Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD ; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
Rom. 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom. 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom. 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom. 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom. 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom. 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom. 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom. 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom. 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Rom. 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
There is no problem. The problem is that over a 40 year relationship this fellow never got around to writing a will, so his desires aren't known. It's my understanding that here in the US the inheritance rights of an opposite sex live in aren't always crystal clear.
What was his butt-boy's name? Waw Lamed?
And yes, sodomy should be criminalized.
They are long-term unmarried couples, it makes a lot of sense for them to have rights similar to long-term unmarried heteros, especially because they aren't allowed to get married.
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