How The Internet Makes My Life Harder, Not Easier
Tips for Jewish Parents of Interfaith Couples: I especially love Number 6: "Remember that it's not your 'fault.' If your child chooses a partner of a different religion, it's not because you didn't give her a strong Jewish identity or because she's rejecting you." This doesn't exactly make me feel better. Luckily, I think E's parents have come around to me, with any luck.
This crazy website insists that only two jewish souls can merge in the ideal of marriage. I can see the worries of religion when it comes to children. But to worry about it in two consenting adults who are adult enough to talk to each other about their issues and beliefs is absurd. This article from the same site argues another point that I have heard before - that my dating E is taking him away from a nice Jewish girl who is his soulmate. Luckily, we've been together long enough that even if there was any true worry of that, it would have dissipated. And trust me - there never was a worry of that!
I want a site with a little more authority to it for my side of the religious divide, but this one at least makes this post a little more balanced. "What parent would not prefer to see a child sick than dead? There is some hope for the life of a man hanging over a precipice and clinging even to a handful of grass, but there is no hope when his brains are dashed out on the rocks beneath. When persons have fully made up their minds to enter mixed marriage, they are so blinded by their passions and preferences that, if the Church should not tolerate their step, many of them would marry out of the Church, and thus commit mortal sin, and in most cases incur excommunication." And that is in the section about Catholics marrying protestants, let alone what I am going to do.
And finally, at least I don't have to worry about this: Killing and selling women as "ghost brides" (Salon.com).
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