Religious Arbitration

[d-ray657]

No cringing here; that was an excellent explanation.

There are illegal contractual provisions (for example, excluding people of particular races from employment). There are also unenforceable contractual provisions - for example a consumer credit contract with all sorts of draconian penalties hid in the fine print. Those are known as contracts of adhesion, and won't be enforced by the court. Similarly, under our legal system, there is no way that our civil courts can enforce a contractual provision that requires a citizen to do as he is directed to do by a religious authority.

Regards,

D-Ray