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Court recognizes lesbian prenup
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Published: 21.12.06, 20:00
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1. So Do both women immerse in the mikveh b 4 the wedding?
concerned citizen ,   nyc   (12.21.06)
2. And now a rather strange question
Steve ,   USA   (12.21.06)
B"H Suppose the two women have a prenuptual agreement with each other, and they call each other members of their family. Then one gets married with a man. How does that differ from the Arab concept of marriage? The man would be nuptually bound to his wife, and his wife would be prenuptually bound to his other woman, the one that is part of the family he is marrying into. I think the court has opened a can of worms. That is the court's problem now that it upheld this agreement.
3. #2: Since They Are Married To Each Other
emanon ,   USA   (12.21.06)
a divorce would be required before either marries another partner. What you are missing here is that there is a comittment for the to people to be faithful to each other. This is *not* an open ended agreement. Yes, there are many heterosexual couples that have so called "open" marriages. That is *not* what a marriage is supposed to be. That is not marriage, period. That is living a lie. A marriage is a lifetime commitment between two people. If two people love each other and are willing to make a lifetime commitment to each other, I'd stand behind that and call it honorable and worthy of full legal privilages, as well as religious privilage, over a heetrosexual non-marriage where the spouses lie to each other, cheat on each other, either openly or secretly, or abuse one another, belittle one or the other or otherwise take advantage of the relationship. That is not love and that is not a marriage. That's my opinion, I stand by it and that's my nickle on the subject. Feel free to express your own opinion.
4. 2@ you are sick
(12.22.06)
5. Re #3: This is prenuptual agreement
Steve ,   USA   (12.22.06)
B"H A prenuptual agreement is an agreement within the family between two people before a marriage. These women are not married at the stage of making a prenuptual agreement, because "pre" means before. That means that one of the women is able to "marry" and if the court does not enter the public debate regarding what constitutes a marriage, a marriage between a man and a woman certainly counts as marriage. The woman would need to divorce the man before the other woman could get out of the prenuptual agreement. That seems like such a bizarre can of worms to open up. Such is reported to be the new court policy and it baffles my mind how the court could allow this.
6. Steve
charles ,   petach tikva   (12.22.06)
Do you think that a lesbian woman would marry a man ? and if one of them would do so , people can change , they can "divorce" too . So not such a smart question , at least as you wrote , a strange one .
7. #1 - Mostly, no
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (12.24.06)
But there is a group which started in J"M, and is now worldwide called the Orthod!kes, and I suppose those gals do.
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