Information about a law proposed in Maryland (from the Baltimore Sun):
"Under Jewish law, a man must grant his wife a divorce degree, or get, to end a marriage. Without it, a Jewish woman is unable to remarry within the faith...If passed, the measure - up for hearings this week in House and Senate committees in Annapolis - would require those filing for divorce or not contesting one to also file an affidavit stating that they had removed all religious barriers to remarriage within their power."
Is this a violation of the separation between church and state? Is this a good idea?
What do you think of this proposed law in Maryland?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.divorce19feb19,0,6041129.story?page=1&coll=bal-local-headlines
2007-02-19 12:09:22 · 5 answers · asked by timm1776 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Just for clarification: the law is not designed to help women who want to leave Orthodox Judaism. It is designed to help divorced women who want to STAY in orthodox Judaism
2007-02-19 12:31:03 · update #1
Totally and completely asinine.
Government has NO authority concerning internal religious practice. Nor should it have, unless the religious practice endangers someone.
2007-02-19 22:35:33 · answer #1 · answered by wendy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a good idea. Sounds to me like the religious rule that you mention (if it is true) is infringing on the civil rights of people and should therefore be outlawed. Just because a religious group wants to do something doesn't mean the government should stay out of it if the thing in question violates the law or people's rights.
2007-02-19 20:19:06 · answer #2 · answered by Larry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly this is the country where you can practice freely what you believe in. I think the law should go hand in hand with religion. I live in California. My sister is getting a divorce because her husband cheated on her and wants to leave her and take the baby. She is Christian and he is Catholic so both of them believe that it is a sin to cheat on your spouse...but in California (where they live) it's ok what he did, and he's getting all that he's asking for! Religion and the law contradicts itself, and I don't think it should.
2007-02-19 20:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by CaliGurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a bad idea. once divorced it should be up to the individual to decide what if any faith they want to be married in not the ex husbands
2007-02-19 20:17:01 · answer #4 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is unconstitutional, it violates the separation of church and state.
2007-02-19 20:26:09 · answer #5 · answered by Richard P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋