Here's a blogpost on why gay marriage should be legal: astarlives.blogspot.com
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Anonymous2012-02-13 14:19
>>6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel Judaism has prohibitions to marriages. These include restrictions on marriages involving a mamzer and by kohenim, but there are other restrictions. Such marriages will not be sanctioned by religious authorities and, as there is no form of civil marriage, cannot be formally entered into in Israel. The couples in these prohibited marriage situations sometimes marry overseas, mostly in Cyprus, which is near Israel.
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Anonymous2012-02-13 14:30
>>9 No Israeli may marry outside his faith community. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union who are not Jewish or whose Jewish ancestry is in doubt are unable to marry at all inside Israel.
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Anonymous2012-02-13 14:34
For example, a man who converted to Orthodox Judaism in the USA was denied an official marriage in Israel on the grounds that his conversion may not have been legitimate and that the Orthodox rabbi who converted him in Louisiana is not recognized in Israel.