The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part seven — Page 190

Did you really expect it though? I was honestly surprised it got as much press as it did when it was released...

I'm Catholic, I don't think my parents really care who I marry. We've never really discussed it. They're very open minded about things like that. They did make me have my confirmation so that I could be married in a church though.

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I think some of the reasoning behind why Jewish parents are so stereotypically hung up on their children marry Jews has to do with the history of persecution; you know, need to preserve and have Jewish children.

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I think Em pretty much hit the nail on the head. And that's precisely what makes my parents' issues about it so funny. I don't know if this is true for other religions, but a child is considered Jewish as long as the mother is. So if I were to marry a non-Jewish guy, our theoretical offspring would still be Jewish*, whereas if my brother married a non-Jewish woman, their kids would be whatever she was. But my parents seem more concerned with me than with him.

* I don't plan on having children, making the what-religion-would-they-be issue even more of a moot point. Yet my parents can't bring themselves to not care.

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Right, Em. And the number of Jews is diminishing everday because of intermarriage and death, so many Jews are really against it. Even though people say they'll have a Jewish home, unless it's totally Jewish, it often seems to end up a different way.

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I guess I could kind of understand that...I just didn't think it was nearly as prominent and such a big deal today

To some people, it just does.

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Brokeback Mountain!!!!!

Edit: There's a reason. It just won Adapted Screenplay. It wasn't just a random post.

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Updated On: 3/5/06 at 11:10 PM

Shiksa, when did Anthony say what's in your signature line?

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