 Sectarian Intermarriage Increases in Canaan | Israeli law bars Jews from marrying non—Jews. Israelis who are not Arab or others are generally opposed to intermarriage and are pleased that the opportunities for such are less in Israel. Secular Israeli couples go to Cyprus in order to get married without the assistance of a rabbi. Arcane, outrageous laws forbid Israeli Jews to marry some other Jews deemed unclean (Momsers) and maintain their descendants in a state of unmarriageableness through the generations. There occur some serious problems of democracy and the freedom of choice here, an aspect of apartheid. Furthermore, conversion is too rigorous a process for many couples to undergo and anyhow in most cases a Jew would be created but he or she would be a nonbeliever.
In Canaan the law could not bar intermarriage. Civil marriage would be constitutionally protected, too. The practice would thereupon proceed even faster than is presently occurring. The growing practice of unmarried couples living together as in marriage would at least temporarily diminish. Such would impress favorably conservatives and beneficiaries of the wedding industry. |
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