Interfaith marriages-do they work?

VestanPance

I could never have partnered with someone with a completely opposite political compass from me.

seven-day-weekend

VestanPance wrote: »

I could never have partnered with someone with a completely opposite political compass from me.

Well then, maybe you can understand why some of us don't want to be married to someone of a completely different faith.

VestanPance

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Well then, maybe you can understand why some of us don't want to be married to someone of a different faith.

I understand that people who worship some non-existent thing not wanting to partner another who worships another non-existent thing.

I've never said otherwise.

lostinrates

I don't think any one has said that people should marry out side their faith seven day weekend.

only that it isn't true it can never work unless one person is not true to their faith. It felt like unnecessary and not necessarily valid judgement on others which frankly is the only reason I kept putting the other opinions forward

Torry_Quine

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I have done that in the past, especially for local elections, but am so against having a Labour Government with the current leadership that I would not vote Labour even if the candidate was a member of my church.

Someone we knew who was a Christian stood as a council candidate in our ward a few years ago. He was shocked when we aid we couldn't vote for him as he'd had an affair and saw nothing wrong with that! It wasn't so much the affair, none of us are perfect but that he didn't think cheating on a relationship and not being repentant had any bearing on how he would be as a councillor. :mad:

Tiglath

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Someone we knew who was a Christian stood as a council candidate in our ward a few years ago. He was shocked when we aid we couldn't vote for him as he'd had an affair and saw nothing wrong with that! It wasn't so much the affair, none of us are perfect but that he didn't think cheating on a relationship and not being repentant had any bearing on how he would be as a councillor. :mad:

What does his sex life have to do with him being a councillor? Is it because you think he'd also be dishonest/lacking in morals in his professional life as well?

Torry_Quine

Tiglath wrote: »

What does his sex life have to do with him being a councillor? Is it because you think he'd also be dishonest/lacking in morals in his professional life as well?

If you can cheat on your spouse and not think there is anything wrong with it then yes I would be concerned about how he would behave in his life as a councillor towards the electorate. If he'd shown remorse that would have been very different, we had been really good friends before this.

Tiglath

Torry_Quine wrote: »

If you can cheat on your spouse and not think there is anything wrong with it then yes I would be concerned about how he would behave in his life as a councillor towards the electorate. If he'd shown remorse that would have been very different, we had been really good friends before this.

Fair enough - would you think differently of a non-Christian adulterous councillor to a Christian adulterous councillor?

Is it relevant that it's a sexual sin? Would you apply the same standards to a gossip, glutton etc?

seven-day-weekend

Tiglath wrote: »

What does his sex life have to do with him being a councillor? Is it because you think he'd also be dishonest/lacking in morals in his professional life as well?

It would be that with me, I would have to decide whether I thought the fact that he had broken promises to his wife and didn't care meant he would do the same with his politics.

If the guy had not professed to be a Christian his affair would not necessarily be an issue.

As to the other issues you mention - being a glutton affects no-one but him, but I would be concerned if he was a gossip.

Person_one

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Don't care. .

You don't care about what?