SJS –
“Heath, you are obligated by halacha to give them a Jewish education. That doesn’t mean a Yeshiva education. That means you should apply for joint custody and whenever you are granted time with them, infuse them with chinuch. And chinuch doesn’t mean necessarily sitting a learning inside – it could mean anything from basics like Jewish thought/philosophy to how to make a bracha.”
True, but if the Court doesn’t let me (they impinge on my rights)give them the type of chinuch I want, then I shouldn’t be obligated to pay child support. You seem to have no problem when goyim step all over my religious rights, as long as they don’t step on the rights of Gays.
“And yes, you are obligated to feed your children. L’halacha. Why would you want them to starve??”
They wouldn’t starve! Stop with trying to play on people’s emotions!
“Reasonable accomodation doesn’t mean having to overturn everything to accomodate you if they can. It means reasonable. Like my friend who trades her saturday shifts with a Catholic woman for her sunday shifts. She gets Shabbos off, her coworker gets Sunday off. It works well for each of them.”
I know the law quite well. So how did your friend communicate with her coworker before she was hired to work out the switch? Telopathy?
“As to two men – they can’t make a legal contract? How many business men do you know? How is a marriage contract (in American law) really different from a business contract?”
Don’t confuse the issue! The problem isn’t the contract. The problem is- (if you would have read the previous page,) that Hashem doesn’t take retribution on these people until they add insult to injury. Once they top off their Toieva lifestyle with official marriage, then Hashem says enough is enough -time to destroy them and their enablers!