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Originally Posted by Pastor Al E Pistle
You people had better start reading the Bible a bit more often. It isn't the girl's choice. If the man liked it when he "went in unto her" and pays the father, she belongs to him. He has no obligation to marry her. If he didn't enjoy the experience, he can case her aside. The woman is then a whore and must be stoned for whoredom.
If she somehow escapes that fate, and the family fails to kill her as Honor dictates, she can never be married because she is not a virgin.
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Eeesh. It never ceases to amaze me that the laws and ways of primitives from many years ago is considered an appropriate 'roadmap' and 'acceptable guidelines' for the people of today.
Or any people at all, for that matter..