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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (57907)11/20/2002 9:43:59 AM
From: gamesmistress  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Is there something in the water that makes people in the Middle East into religious bigots?

I wouldn't call it bigotry per se; I think this problem will always arise when a particular religion can dictate what marriages and divorces a state will recognize. What marriages and divorces a religion recognizes should its own concern but not be public policy or law. For example, Britain's Princess Anne had to remarry in the Church of Scotland because the Church of England did not recognize her divorce. Of course, she and her new husband could have gotten married by anyone authorized by the government to perform marriages, and it would have been legal, but she wanted to marry in a church. In Israel obviously the separation of church and state does not apply in this area but from those articles you posted it may evolve that way.
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