In Israel the religious institution that has legal authority to make decisions about marrying Jews is a government department called Chief Rabbinate of Israel .
If you aren't Jewish then your religion e.g. Christian offices will decide. If you are non religious you can just do a civil union like thing which got the rights of a marriage.
Still outdated, but who am I to judge when my state didn't recognize gay marriages till recently?
I mean it’s still fucking weird that if you’re not religious but your partner is they basically have to lie and say their an atheist for you to get married.
Yes. Historically it was for example in Europe and parts of what is called the Mena region, that if you were Jewish and would marry a Christian you would be put to death. Since the same and the Shoa happened just a few years prior I understand how it came to be that law was initially created / kept as it was in parts.
Not sure if it is right, but it feels as if the religious consitution of marriages was also a point that made the Christian fundamentalists support Israel more for their Christian anti Muslim Supremacy project.
So then it's really still the government that grants marriages, it has just delegated it's authority to a conservative and bigoted religious body, resulting in de facto miscengenation laws and a near impossibility of introducing basic stuff like same-sex marriage.
In Israel the religious institution that has legal authority to make decisions about marrying Jews is a government department called Chief Rabbinate of Israel .
Not an ethno-state folks
If you aren't Jewish then your religion e.g. Christian offices will decide. If you are non religious you can just do a civil union like thing which got the rights of a marriage.
Still outdated, but who am I to judge when my state didn't recognize gay marriages till recently?
I mean it’s still fucking weird that if you’re not religious but your partner is they basically have to lie and say their an atheist for you to get married.
Yes. Historically it was for example in Europe and parts of what is called the Mena region, that if you were Jewish and would marry a Christian you would be put to death. Since the same and the Shoa happened just a few years prior I understand how it came to be that law was initially created / kept as it was in parts.
Not sure if it is right, but it feels as if the religious consitution of marriages was also a point that made the Christian fundamentalists support Israel more for their Christian anti Muslim Supremacy project.
So then it's really still the government that grants marriages, it has just delegated it's authority to a conservative and bigoted religious body, resulting in de facto miscengenation laws and a near impossibility of introducing basic stuff like same-sex marriage.
In Iran, draconian religious law is handed down by a group of clerics with unrestrained state power.
Progress will be when Iran includes Paladins in the exercise of power.