Nudity during sex annuls marriage, says cleric - Whoa!

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/January/middleeast_January239.xml§ion=middleeast&col=

CAIRO — An Egyptian cleric’s controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars. According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia, “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”.

The religious decree sparked a hot debate on the private satellite network Dream’s popular religious talk show and on the front page of Sunday’s Al Masri Al Yom, Egypt’s leading independent daily newspaper.

Suad Saleh, who heads the women’s department of Al Azhar’s Islamic studies faculty, pleaded for “anything that can bring spouses closer to each other” and rejected the claim that nudity during intercourse could invalidate a union.

During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”

[MrSlayer]

1. Insanity.

Who comes up with these fucking ludicrous rules?

[LiberalEsto]

4. I've heard some religious folks do it thru a sheet

I can't remember which group - maybe some very orthodox Jews?

[tocqueville]

14. the word "Glory hole" got a whole new meaning... nt

[Canuckistanian]

17. Wrong. Urban myth.

Here's Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/sheet.htm

[LiberalEsto]

29. I'm relieved to hear it! nt

[Canuckistanian]

35. I'm sure they are, too!

[MrSlayer]

21. Religion is just stupid.

I'm sorry but it is. It's nonsensical, illogical and ridiculous. Some jackass decides what you eat, how you fuck, who you can fuck, what you can think, how you can dress, which foot to enter a bathroom with and so on. And to not follow means everlasting torment in "Hell" or what's worse torture and death here on Earth. It's just plain silly, superstitious rot. The world would be far better off without religion.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

31. Agreed!

[ladjf]

38. Superstition is a dangerous guid beacon to follow.

[ladjf]

37. That might be good for laughs , once.

[hwmnbn]

20. Don't you mean these....

ludicrous fucking rules?

[MrSlayer]

22. Heh.

Could have been said that way, yes.

[WindRavenX]

2. granted, keeping some clothes on during the deed can be fun...

...but required? Bah.

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. 'I like the way the line runs down the back of the stockings'

"I've always liked those kinda high heels, too. Nonononono, don't take 'em off, don't take 'em off, leave 'em on! Yeah, that's it; a little more to the right."

:evilgrin:

[spanone]

3. This proves there is no 'intelligent design'.

[RagingInMiami]

5. Religious freaks are everywhere

We should put them all on an island and let them sodomize each other.

[4morewars]

13. Just say NO to sodomy !

During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”

[jimshoes]

30. and vegetables...

and...

[Raydawg1234]

33. or better yet, Just say no to religion!

[CornField]

6. What stupid, little-minded people we all are

Instead of worrying about those who die of starvation or those who suffer from disease, we spend our time debating biological reproductive practices and what, at any given moment, some sacred deity may think of such.

Let me make this one really clear: If you are lucky enough in life to find someone you love that loves you back, please enjoy each other sexually however you please. The rest of us don't need to hear about it and no one else should really have a say in it -- especially any deity who made you the way you are.

Life is way too short for perpetual hair-up-the-ass syndrome.

[EST]

25. AAAAmen!

Your monologue should be stamped on people's foreheads, almost!
Required reading.

[PretzelWarrior]

7. I'll be sure and tell my wife when we get home that we haven't

been married for years according to Mr. Fatwa

[tnlefty]

8. Isn't some nudity necessary?

I guess getting nekkid would be seen as a clear signal that one no longer wishes to be married.

[woodsprite]

16. Getting naked with a neighbor means the marriage is invalidated.

Now THAT decree I can see as holding some water.

[tnlefty]

24. No, that makes you a family values, baptist, republican in my neighborhood

Which is probably why they hate my hubbie and me 'cause we liberals refuse to join in their little parties. Oh, and these folks are still in a tizzy 'cause Clinton cheated on his wife.:crazy:

[tularetom]

9. These guys are so frickin dumb

that I thought the "cleric" you referred to was Robertson, taking time off from making threats in god's name to telling fundies how to hide the salami.

[tocqueville]

10. US fundies probably agree...

and wearing a condom invalidates marriage

[AlinPA]

11. When I saw this, I thought it was something from the conservatives in

the US- republicans/Falwell/Robertson/Dobson/Bush** people.

[boobooday]

12. Get 'em on a technicality

Some fishnets and pasties?

Would that make it okay?

[NaturalHigh]

15. That's it! I'm not taking any chances.

I'll be buying my wife those knee-high boots I've had my eye on.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. This is why

I always wear a hat and night-vision goggles during sex.


(OLL having sex)

[Ready4Change]

19. Women MUST wear garters. Men MUST wear toolbelts.

It's the law!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

23. A decree from a man who's obviously never gotten any

and never ever WILL.

He has to try to spoil it for EVERYBODY. Jeez, wotta prude.

[Cleita]

26. I guess time to bring back that old sheet with the hole in it.

:evilgrin:

[barb162]

42. you bad

As soon as I saw what you wrote, I thought of the other medieval stuff, chastity belts. I always wondered why men didn't have to wear some form of those contraptions. But then again what does "equal" have to do with anything in regard to chastity belts

[sendero]

27. I'm sure glad I can get nekkid..

... because that's the way I like it :evilgrin:

[tuvor]

28. Let's hear it for fundies!

[Patsy Stone]

32. Now this could either be good or bad

If you're nude with a woman who isn't your wife, does it annul the marriage you're in?

[pop goes the weasel]

34. If you wear clothing during extramarital sex

does that make you married?

[tanyev]

36. They don't need to be giving our fundies any more ideas.

We'll be living The Handmaid's Tale pretty soon.

[Deja Q]

39. So if Julie can't see Tom's peep, the marriage is safe?

:shrug:

[barb162]

43. Yes

[meow2u3]

40. Keeping your socks on will do the trick

Maybe that will satisfy the censors and the cameras they hide in their bedrooms :evilgrin:

[barb162]

41. yeah, but do the socks have to go up to your neck?

[meow2u3]

45. It's called a body suit

complete with appropriately positioned holes :evilgrin:

[barb162]

46. gotcha

[MercutioATC]

44. I spent HOW much on my divorce?!?!?

Had I only known....