Secular Coptic leader Kamāl Zākhir states that Pope Shenouda III should stay away from the second marriage issue because it is a civil issue.

Ikrām Lam'ī, an Evangelical, argues that Pope Shenouda’s statement that civil marriage is a kind of adultery is a call for a religious state, while Catholic Rafīq Jirīsh says that civil marriage is also considered fornication in Catholicism.

Keywords: Pope Shenouda III - Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá - Rafīq Jirīsh - Ikrām Lam'ī