Reply #30: Methinks [View All]

[Lithos]

Israeli law grants authority to each religion and major sect to establish their own Religious court to govern civil laws such as divorce and marriage for their adherents. Thus Roman Catholics use their own court which differs from that used by Jews which differs in turn from that used by Greek Orthodox, etc.

Granted there is a weakness from a US perspective in that there is no civil recourse for divorce and the added difficulty that dual religion divorces must go through the Supreme Court to determine which Religious court holds authority, to comment on the rightness or wrongness of a particular belief's divorce practice is inappropriate and against I/P forum guidelines.

Lithos