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Inter-faith Marriages

Does your religion accept inter-faith marriages? Why or why not?

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I doubt there are many religions that will promote or accept inter-faith marriages. Some are more tolerant of it than others. I guess you can say my marriage was an inter-faith one. The reason I use the word 'guess' is because at the time I was not strongly attached to a particular church, the details of which I will not go into in this discussion. My wife was Catholic, and was very strong in her faith, so we decided to get married in the Catholic church. The church frowned on the fact that I wasnt Catholic and that we were living together, but allowed me to participate in their pre-marriage classes, etc and we were also allowed to be married in the church. It was a bit uncomfortable though because I was not allowed to participate in the mass traditions during the ceremony, such as partaking of communion, etc.

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Malexander said:

Just out of curiosity. Did you tell the Priest upfront you was not a Catholic but you wanted to marry in the Church? The reason I am asking that is because in Argentina you cannot marry in the Catholic Church unless you're a Catholic.


In our Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, inter-faith marriages are not encouraged either, nevertheless, I know many members who have married people outside the Church.

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Yes we did. The very first time we approached the Priest to let him know our intentions of getting married in the Catholic church, that was one of the first questions he asked me. Like I said, he wasn't very happy about it, but did not disallow the marriage.

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I have dated outside my faith which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have found that ultimately, my faith to someone looking in is very strange. For someone who has either never been in a religious setting, or has their own very different system of beliefs, my faith seems to be something that takes up a lot of my time and energy. I have heard us referred to as a cult.. as a lot of negative things. I suppose this is why I am as picky as I am now. I know for a fact, unless I meet someone who is willing to learn objectively about my faith, I will marry someone who shares my religious beliefs.

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I was brought up Methodist, and my husband was brought up Catholic.

Neither Church encouraged an inter-faith marriage, so we decided we were not going to please everyone, there was always going to be one side of the family unhappy, we did what we thought was best, and married at a Church that none of us were connected to.

We got married at a Protestant Church!

At least none of our relatives could say that we were being biased!

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It is strongly discouraged but as everything else, not forbidden. For a woman it is basically a means of limiting her spiritual progress because the man holds the priesthood and can thus take her to further 'reaches' within the next life. We see good evidence of what happens with inter-faith marriages with the story of Solomon - a man known for wisdom - yet so foolish in the women he chose to marry.

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I have an inter-faith marriage. I am LDS and my husband was raised in the Assembly of God faith though he doesn't actively participate. It works for us, but I understand why it's frowned on, though I'm surprised to learn by most other churches as well as the LDS faith. Marriage is difficult in the best of circumstances and when there are major differences in basic religious beliefs, it just adds to the challenge. There are so many aspects of life that our belief system influence and each one becomes a negotiation when spouses don't share the same goals or eternal perspectives.

Offtopic but, I don't understand this comment but perhaps it's because of my limited spiritual progress.

Edited: Valla on 27th Apr, 2006 - 5:29pm