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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (116661)	10/12/2003 7:07:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

All they need to do is get a civil marriage and it is recognized. None of the couples in the documentary mentioned the slightest difficulty getting the state to recognize the marriage.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (116661)	10/12/2003 8:17:31 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Jacob Snyder; Re: "Yes, there are Jews and Muslims who marry. But it is illegal, and not recognized by the Israeli State." I'm not (yet) convinced that the Israeli state refuses to recognize foreign marriages between Moslems and Jews. But I know that to get married at all, such a couple must leave the country, and for Moslems, that may not be very easy. For comparison, here's what happened to a white / black couple in the US: ... Richard and Mildred Loving were married in 1958 in Washington D.C. because their home state of Virginia still upheld the anti miscegenation law which stated that interracial marriages were illegal. They were married, and then lived together in Caroline County, Virginia. In 1959 they were prosecuted and convicted of violating the state's anti miscegenation law. They were each sentenced one-year in jail, but promised the sentence would be suspended if they agreed to leave the state and not return for 25 years. Forced to move, they returned to Washington D.C. where, in 1963, they initiated a suit challenging the constitutionality of the anti miscegenation law. In March of 1966, the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the law, but in June of 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled the law unconstitutional. Thus, in 1967 the 16 states which still had anti miscegenation laws on their books were forced to erase them. ... cousincouples.com -- Carl