Wasserman Schultz calls Jewish intermarriage a "problem"

[maddiemom]

12. I'm a senior citizen and can remember when the parents of my Protestant friends didn't want

their kids dating Catholics and vice-versa (someone Jewish? Usually beyond the pale on both sides). Most of my family, on both sides, were not very religious, and we already had a mix of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish among our relatives over several generations. I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties knowing this was unusual in my small town/suburban area. By college, however, I found there were others like me (wow). Although nominally Protestant, I married a "fallen away" Roman Catholic whose family couldn't have been more welcoming. A Protestant school friend married an Eastern Orthodox Catholic. (they cross themselves the other way). When our daughter entered elementary school after a Montessori, multi-cultural preschool in a college town, she felt funny because "everyone else went to church." Her Dad asked if I minded if she went through the Catholic thing, and of course, I didn't. I now have an adult "Catholic" daughter who loves the holiday ceremonies like midnight mass and otherwise rarely attends church. She is also a kind, caring, and open-minded person. Religion had little to do with it. I'm amazed this should be important today.