While I can see why the homosexuality decision is causing a lot of debate, I really don’t see the big deal in the Catholic Church discouraging Catholics from marrying Muslims. Presumably, lots of Muslim clergy discourage the reverse, particularly if Islam gets the short end of the stick in the relationship. Jews certainly frown on intermarriage (though it didn’t stop me). Religions are supposed to frown on all sorts of things.

What’s interesting about the article Kathryn links to is that the Italian Muslim community doesn’t seem to object to the decision. It’s liberal Italians.

Choose your own moral to this story.