In the crowded annals of marital spite, a 2010 divorce in Illinois-involving a Roman Catholic man and a Jewish woman and lavishly covered by the local press-stands out for the irreconcilable nature of its core dispute. The husband converted to Judaism and promised to raise any children as Jewish, but later changed his mind, saying that his unbaptised daughter risked not going to heaven. He had his daughter baptised and e-mailed his wife a photograph of the event-an action that earned him a court order and threats of prison should he take his child to church again. (Joint religious rights were granted in the divorce settlement.)
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