Why I Officiate at Interfaith Weddings

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15. Assuming that the parents are not against gay marriage, yes.

And that is a safe assumption when it comes to Reform Jews and, for a large part, Conservative Jews. But Orthodox Jews will likely have a problem accepting their gay children's union with other gay Jews and be against marriages they see as non-traditional.

Regarding a Cohen... A Cohen is a descendant of Aaron who qualifies to be a Jewish priest in the holy temple in Jerusalem according to Jewish Law. Orthodox Jews believe that once the temple is restored the Cohenim (plural for Cohen) will go back to performing their priestly duties of sacrificial offerings. And to be able to do the temple priest stuff, Jews who are descendants of temple priests and whose last names are usually Cohen, Cohan, Cowan, Coen, Kahn, Kohen, Kagen, Correia, Katz, etc. will observe some restrictions according to Jewish Law.

One of these restrictions is that a Cohen is not allowed to marry a convert to Judaism. He is allowed to marry a daughter of converts (since she was born Jewish), but not a convert.