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How Scientologists get married (Weird Vows)
Yahoo News and AFB ^ | 17 Nov 06 | None

Posted on 11/18/2006 1:15:37 PM PST by SkyPilot

PARIS (AFP) - The Church of Scientology provides for several kinds of wedding ceremony for its followers, but according to the most traditional the husband "may promise to provide her (his wife) with "a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat."

US actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes will provide perhaps the most high-profile Scientologists' wedding to date this weekend.

And according to unconfirmed reports in the Italian media, American Scientology leader David Miscavige will fly in from Los Angeles to preside over the event.

According to the Scientologists' book "The Background, Ministry, Ceremonies and Sermons of the Scientology Religion", there are five versions of the Scientologist wedding ceremony: traditional, informal, single ring, double ring, and concise double ring, all of varying length and formality.

Scientology's "traditional ceremony" includes such advice to the groom as "Now -----, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat.

"All caprice if you will, but still they need them."

The bride is told: "Hear well, sweet -----, for promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him that you may have necessities and follies, too."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2weird; clambake; cult; fraudreligion; freaks; jokereligion; katieholmes; marriage; notareligion; phonyreligion; scientology; sickjokreligion; spotthelooney; tomcruise
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To: Past Your Eyes

I surmised that would be what her press release would explain, however, her hand is backward. Was Tom "fashionably" late to his nuptialology?


101 posted on 11/18/2006 5:03:44 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President**)
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To: SkyPilot

Scientology is another face of black magic. Hubbard was A. Crowley's disciple and just found another way of stealing souls away into madness and Darkness.


102 posted on 11/18/2006 5:06:33 PM PST by Maeve ( Scientology is satanic.)
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To: SkyPilot

103 posted on 11/18/2006 5:08:08 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: hosepipe

Scientology is a made-up religion that got L. Ron Hubbard rich. That was his goal.


104 posted on 11/18/2006 5:11:23 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Loud Mime; reagan_fanatic

105 posted on 11/18/2006 5:17:16 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Boazo

LOL - good one!


106 posted on 11/18/2006 5:17:54 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Boazo

Very nice!

I read somewhere that Katie Holmes Cruise was born in 1978. Eleven years earlier, in 1967, Nicole Kidman was born. Eleven years before that, and we have Mimi Rogers born in 1956. And aren't they all Catholics?

Just found that interesting.


107 posted on 11/18/2006 5:27:11 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President**)
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To: ODC-GIRL

Just ask Lisa McPherson.


108 posted on 11/18/2006 5:53:24 PM PST by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13!!!!!)
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109 posted on 11/18/2006 5:57:19 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: cajungirl
I got a pan and a cat but no comb.

...but, but, did they register for a cat ? I have a Rat Tail Comb.



110 posted on 11/18/2006 6:27:55 PM PST by Neenah
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To: Finalapproach29er
Pretty,vain women go for the pretty looking guy. Shallowness begets shallowness. They deserve their misery.

You ugly? :)

111 posted on 11/18/2006 7:11:22 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Gorzaloon

LOL,,love the oak leaf cluster!


112 posted on 11/18/2006 7:13:58 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Last Dakotan

Is it over yet or do I have to read the thread?


113 posted on 11/18/2006 7:15:28 PM PST by Rte66
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To: lawdude

well, you are here so do you give a teeny mouse's arse?

I think Britney is trash. These people are more of the loon disposition. I guess you could be both but they dress too well and look too good to be real trash. Now Britney with her bosom hanging out of her too tight top and her major league trashy husband is real trash, southern trash, the best kind of trash.


114 posted on 11/18/2006 7:16:36 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: hosepipe

No, its a cult. Only available to the very wealthy.


115 posted on 11/18/2006 7:17:35 PM PST by lndrvr1972
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To: Rte66

If we had to read it, you do too.


116 posted on 11/18/2006 7:19:12 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Moonmad27

You are so right...


117 posted on 11/18/2006 7:21:59 PM PST by lndrvr1972
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To: cajungirl

Oh, come on! It was the lead story on our morning news, noon news, evening news, world news, national news and they didn't interrupt the football games to tell us the precise "no-flyover-zone" moment of glorious nuptialization.

I haven't read the thread yet.


118 posted on 11/18/2006 7:24:23 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Past Your Eyes
Here are a few more photos of the "happy" bride...

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119 posted on 11/18/2006 7:44:49 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President**)
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To: Last Dakotan

I ain't Tom Cruise, but I'm okay with that.


120 posted on 11/18/2006 7:51:34 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush if given a chance.)
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