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SANTO DOMINGO.- Non-Catholic religious marriages will have also have a civil character in the terms established by Law, without jeopardizing international treaties specifically the Concordat between Dominican and Vatican states.

The Constitution Revisory Assembly members yesterday approved the text after reconsidering the proposal, which had been rejected in first roll call, and after accepting the report by the Verification and Audit Commission.

The legislation is a victory for the country's Protestant churches, which argued that in the aspect of matrimony, the State cannot favor one denomination over another.

The Assembly also approved personal and patrimonial rights and duties of the informal relations or "concubine" unions and that “the singular and stable union between a man and a woman, free of the impediment of marriage, which in essence forms a household, generates rights and duties in its personal and patrimonial relations, in adherence to the law."

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Written by: BASTA, 23 Sep 2009 8:08 AM
From: Dominican Republic, = Ghetto-SPM-Barrio Blanco
non-Catholic= also Witchcraft
Written by: EnricoRizzo This user is banned, 23 Sep 2009 8:11 AM
From: Puerto Rico, Oso Blanco Rio Piedras
All those shacked up gringos are really gonna get it now ........Surprise Surprise !
Written by: Ricardolito, 23 Sep 2009 8:15 AM
From: Dominican Republic, la Romana
I think that it is a victory for common sense ,,not many free countries do not recognise a marriage that has been consecrated in an Escopalian , Orthodox or Methodist church or in a Jewish synagogue ..just to mention a few
Written by: IronThinker, 23 Sep 2009 9:16 AM
From: United States, New Haven, CT
I wonder how this will fare with all the "Mitresses" that politicians have laying around?
I agree with Enrico, pobre Europeos who think their Dominican girlfriend wont take them to court now for part of their businesses, what will their real wives say now?
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 9:32 AM
From: United States, Chicago
24 hour divorce will become more popular?
Written by: cibaeño75, 23 Sep 2009 10:10 AM
From: United States, New York City
" without jeopardizing international treaties specifically the Concordat between Dominican and Vatican states. "

Why is the Dominican state, in 2009, still honoring a treaty made by a bloody dictator with one of his facilitators more than half a century later? Dios mio que cretinaje.
Written by: WalterPolo, 23 Sep 2009 10:46 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Not that I favor the Catholics, but at least their ministers of cult have a long academic formation and are, I think, trustworthy enough to do paperwork with official value (birth, marriage, death certificates and the like).

Since any motocoño can decide tomorrow he is a pastor and can invent his own church, which is certainly more profitable than motocoñoing, he now will have the fringe benefit of issuing documents of official value. So now, maybe his wife was a daughter of the late Don Eduardo Leon.

Catching my drift?
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 10:58 AM
From: United States, Chicago
less fraud is involved in church weddings
Written by: Bizc8, 23 Sep 2009 11:39 AM
From: United States
WalterPolo, if only you had chosen to restrain yourself from such disdaining words, your point would've had that much more credit and weight.

I agree with you wholeheartedly in that allowing a third-grader to issue official government documentation can have some very undesireable consequences.
Written by: EnricoRizzo This user is banned, 23 Sep 2009 3:03 PM
From: Puerto Rico, Oso Blanco Rio Piedras
Document fraud ? I am shocked shocked
Written by: agibus This user is banned, 23 Sep 2009 9:54 PM
From: United States
DR is a tolerant society so EnricoRizzo just take it easy and send the mother f.... burn to hell

Written by: mrios, 24 Sep 2009 12:40 AM
From: United States
Basta,
CATHOLICISM + VOO DOO = SANTERIA
Both have so much in common.
Worship of Statue Saints, which are Canonized and Blessed by the Church of Rome, Santeria the Worship of Saints GONE WILD and the original MEN IN WHITE.

Does anybody know the exact Statue Saint total count ?




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