Interfaith Marriages

       When people live in a multi-faith society, it is very possible that people of different faiths are going to meet, fall in love and want to marry. This can cause problems for religions parents because they will have different beliefs and could therefore possible have arguments about religion.

        If a couple of different religions decide to get married, they will not be able to have a religious wedding ceremony because both couples have to be a member of the same religion for a religious ceremony to be allowed. Also, if a married couple have kids, they have to decide on which religion their child is going to be brought up in. This could cause possible arguments and would then test the marriage.

        There is also going to be a problem that after you die, the couple would have to decide where they want their bodies to be buried after they die - e.g. in different cemeteries. This would mean the couple/whole family would not be able to be buried together.

         If people have interfaith marriages, the parents would feel quite betrayed by their child because they would usually want their child to marry someone within the same community as them, and would not like the idea of change very much because it might be new to them having two people of different religions marry.

C.S