[Avodah] Halacha vs. Policy - Poll re: Who To Marry

[Meir Shinnar]

WRT the discussion about RYK's psak, and whom it would actually apply
to - as the person who it would apply to would not normally be asking
she'elot - on another email list, several years back, there was a
discussion by a RW member - who was vigorously championing the
position that RYK rejected - that one should rather marry a non Jew
than not keep taharat hamishpacha - and the nafka mina was whether one
should try to be meshaddech two nonobservant Jews - or steer a
nonobservant Jew towards a non Jewish mate - and this RW poster was
insistent that it was preferable to steer the non Jew towards a non
Jew, and was against much of the activity of others for Jewish
shidduchim.
Therefore, the question does (and did) arise, and has a nafka mina
lehalacha for those who actually care about halacha
(most of the people on the list were shocked by the position taken -
but it is the extreme version of going by the book and determining
what is the most extreme issur involved...)

Meir Shinnar