This can seem a little antique from the vantage of New York in 2013, where one of the candidates for mayor of New York is married to another woman and another, a male, is married to a woman who says she was a lesbian.

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Peculiar to Shia Islam, the sigeh is a contract between a man (who can be married) and a woman (who cannot she is usually divorced) for a union with a defined time limit, perhaps 99 years, perhaps 30 minutes.

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