She said she didn't tell her first husband about herself for two years before they got married. His reaction was pretty blasé "Well that's life. Let's get married." I do wonder if he didn't suspect right from the beginning that's why it wasn't a shock.
shareGood for him, after two years it must of been driving her crazy!
shareWhat?
shareShe was the first Trans woman to pose for Playboy, was in a couple of 80’s rock videos and a James Bond film, but she didn't tell her husband that she was born a guy for 2 years after they wed.
oh dear.
Did they stay married?
No they got divorced because his Jewish parents didn't approve. She has said his parents nearly dropped dead learning that she's Christian and the transsexual thing probably would've killed them. They probably could accept the transsexual stuff better than being a Christian, LOL. She actually told him before they were married and not two years after the marriage like the other poster said.
shareAhh I read that somewhere, wiki I think, a shame they split though.
shareforget the trans bit , is this normal behaviour for jewish parents re marriage to christians?
shareNo, almost every Jewish person I know has married a non-Jew. It's a very tolerant and generally progressive religion.
sharegood to know
sharePersonally I think there's a downside though. Jews are a minority and they will be bred out of existence in the U.S. & Europe if this keeps up.
sharewell thats getting into what, for me as an uninformed outsider, seems like murky water of "Is jewish a race or religion?"
The line seem more blurred in this case than others.
Catholics and muslims are just spread out everywhere through various cultures and nationanlities .
Jews seem rather insular by reputation .
Perhaps they need to get more converts in ?
Because religion should presumably be a choice rather than a thing foisted on you by your birth , although granted usually the two overlap.
Well I believe it's an ethnicity as well as a religion. If we want to describe it genetically, we can say Ashkenazi, Sephardic et al are ethnicities which we call "Jewish". Most Jews in the U.S. and Europe are Ashkenazi.
And lets be honest. The state of Israel was in many ways created to preserve not only the Jewish religion, but also the bloodlines after the Holocaust.
But even in terms of religion, it will die out if Jews keep marrying Christians and atheists.
There is a documentary about this called "Out of Faith." I would like to see it but only saw the trailer on Youtube and read about it. Can't find it elsewhere. It's about two Jewish grandparents, who spent nearly 3 years in a concentration camp, who aren't at all happy their two grandkids want to marry outside of their faith. I think with the grandson they don't speak to him anymore, but they do with the grand daughter. They feel if you marry outside of your faith and raise your kids as Christian then all you are doing is completing Hitler's work.
Yeah, I have Mormon family and the magical underwear is always a sort of amusement. Many Mormons have a sense of humor about it.
The biggest confusion in regards to Jewish people is getting people to understand or even admit that "Jewish" is an ethnic group like Irish or Italian or Japanese, in addition to a religion.
Countless times I've debated those online who will tell me that an atheist can't be Jewish.
It does work both ways though. I have a blond-haired blue-eyed lily white friend with an Irish last name and an Irish father who wears a yarmulke and considers himself Jewish because that's how his Jewish mother raised him.