the electoral college does what it ' s supposed to . and if it wasn ' t in place , many californian trump voters who simply stayed at home since their vote doesn ' t matter WOULD have come out to votethe system is in place to work a certain way . without the system everything would work a different way . you can ' t say remove the electoral college and clinton wins because that ' s not how systems work <| sep |> o shit yea it is i forgot about that <| sep |> I think it ' s more like Phoenixes are so virtuous that one being aligned with Dumbledore is one of the reasons no one ever questions him . <| sep |> Actually , as far as the legal issues are concerned , what ' s discussed there is something the UK has faced for many centuries . Like Islam , Catholicism and Judaism both have their own criteria for the validity of a marriage or a divorce , which do not coincide with those of the British government . No one in the UK has the right to force you to get a religious marriage or a religious divorce , and neither gives you any legal rights . By the same token , no one in the British government has the authority to assure you that you aren ' t living in sin by a given religion ' s standards . If that matters to you , you need to consult your preferred religious body , whether you call it a court or a Beth Din or an ecclesiastical tribunal . If that body turns out to be full of misogynists , as these testimonies suggest some of them are , then as a believer that ' s unfortunately your problem to deal with the law of the land gives you every right to ignore the verdict , to protest it and try to reform it , to join a different denomination , or even to look for a different judge . The religious bodies in question may well need reform there should certainly have been someone to warn that woman about Anjem Choudhry , for a start , but only believers can do that job , not governments .