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"A wedding guest hasn&amp;amp;#8217;t made me this angry in a long time. My friend Mollie (not her real name) is Jewish. Mollie&amp;amp;#8217;s brother is Jewish. His wife, aka Mollie&amp;amp;#8217;s sister-in-law, is Jewish, too. But Mollie&amp;amp;#8217;s fiance James is Catholic. James and Mollie have gotten along fine with both the brother and the sister-in-law in the two years that James and Mollie have been dating and engaged. So Mollie was really surprised to get a wedding response card back from her brother saying that he would be attending the wedding by himself. Naturally, Mollie was confused why her sister-in-law was declining her wedding invitation. So she asked her brother who, with a sigh, explained that his wife feels so strongly that Jews marry other Jews that she won&amp;amp;#8217;t attend interfaith weddings. (The sister-in-law isn&amp;amp;#8217;t all that religious, mind you.) And this is where I get mad. Paul and I are an interfaith couple, and it just kills me that someone would refuse to support our union solely for that reason. I know that many Jewish people believe it&amp;amp;#8217;s important to marry other Jews and raise Jewish kids because there are so few Jews left in the world. Fine. I get that. In that case, please, marry Jewish. But don&amp;amp;#8217;t refuse to attend the weddings of people who fell in love with people outside their religion. It&amp;amp;#8217;s childish and hurtful. But enough about me &amp;amp;#8212; poor Mollie! And poor Mollie&amp;amp;#8217;s brother, who&amp;amp;#8217;s embarrassed and upset that his wife isn&amp;amp;#8217;t going to the wedding. (And first person who figures out what movie the characters Mollie and James are from wins my admiration.) How would you feel if your sibling&amp;amp;#8217;s spouse wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t attend your wedding because of your fiance&amp;amp;#8217;s religion? Would you be able to sit across from them at family dinners after this? Or do you think the sister-in-law is totally justified in refusing to attend? More Wedding Family Dramas Would You Skip a Family Member&amp;amp;#8217;s Wedding If You Knew It&amp;amp;#8217;d Be Drama, Drama, Drama? Help! My Groom&amp;amp;#8217;s Family Turned on Me! My Future Mother-in-Law Wants to Sing at My Wedding! More Ways to Get Glamour Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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