The November Commentary is not online yet, but I’m a subscriber, and it contains an article by a Christian theologian, R.R. Reno, that justifies the Jewish law against intermarriage–including Reno’s own, for which his Jewish daughter is now paying a spiritual price, he relates in a solemn and regretful tone, as he is barred, rightly he says, from joining her on the bima during her bat mitzvah. The article includes an attack on "modern Christianity" over its approval of homosexuality: "[I]t had rejected the very idea that God’s commandments can shape or control how we use our bodies."
Thus Commentary’s conservatism on intermarriage puts it in the company of fundamentalist Christians.
Reno’s interfaith relationship began at Yale in 1985, he says. Two achievers, thrown together–"our lives as students were full of common experiences and common aspirations…in that bastion of American liberalism." Much more unlikely, he says, would be a union between "a young Republican and a Women Studies major."
True indeed. The new sociology of America has made Jews and Episcopalians peers in elite launching pads, the Ivy League. Yes: why not roll that back, and feminism, and gay rights while you’re at it.
