Hānī ʿIzzat, a coordinator with the Union of Personal Status Law Victims, said that rule 38 does not violate the precepts of the gospel as some have said. ʿIzzat added that rule 38 utilizes 7 justifications for divorce from the ʿIzzat gospel, saying that rule 38 had been in effect from 1938 until it was repealed in 1971. ʿIzzat also reported that the 7 reasons for divorce were: the occurrence of promiscuous sex, deadly disease, insanity, life long imprisonment, deserting the marriage, estrangement of marriage for three years, or homosexuality.

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