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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 05:33 AM EDT |
I can only agree with you (based on recent laws) if the punctuation is:
the government is religious, rather than secular as is the case in the UK
rather than:
the government is religious (rather than secular) as is the case in the UK[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 09:00 AM EDT |
| As is the case around the world, Christian, Jewish and Islamic
marriages are
accepted as valid marriages under the secular law.
Depends on what
you mean by "accepted as valid marriages". For example, in
Germany income tax
payments would be different (usually more favourable) if
you are married, but a
widow / widower might lose pension rights when getting
married again. In both
cases, a Christian marriage wouldn't cause these effects
as far as I know. And
the catholic church will only very, very rarely accept that
you are divorced,
so many people are still in a Christian marriage who are legally
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
UK government is not religious. Okay, we have the established church, which
gives certain bishops the right to sit in the House Of Lords (not much of a
right nowadays, and there was talk recently about removing the right from a
bunch of bishops because they weren't using it).
As for marriages, all marriages need to be notarised by a registrar. So long as
a registrar is present I believe you can have pretty much any ceremony you like,
but certain words MUST be said and both parties must enter into it willingly.
It's the job of the registrar to confirm both facts.
I don't think I'm wrong on the "any ceremony" (I'm not sure) because
(a) civil weddings are not allowed to have any religious references, (b)
Anglican weddings are based on church law, and (c) most of the weddings I've
been to (including my daughter's) have been non-conformist. So I would have
thought Hindu, Moslem, whatever could presumably incorporate the legal words and
have a registrar present, and be a legit religious wedding.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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