Reply #118: Your brother still has it wrong.

[Grins]

The "rule" for Catholics and Jews is that the default situation is that it is the mother's religion that determines the children's religion. The thinking is, well, we may never know who the real father is, but we sure as hell know who the mother is!

In my youth (before I dropped out) the Catholic Church strongly discourage inter-religious marriages; and if they were to happen (and you wanted to get married in a Catholic Church), the non-Catholic would have to promise to bring the kids up Catholic. I'm pretty sure this was tru for Jews as well. Maybe other religions as well, but not sure.

The other response to your brother would be, "So?" Nothing in the Constitution says "No-Muslims allowed".

My thought the night of the election was, here is the United States, with an incurious retard as president, at war in two Muslim countries, and in a social war with the rest of them, just elected an educated, black, democrat - whose father was a Muslim! Is this country great or what!! More than half the planet the next day had to think ...WTF....?