I wonder if this law is even constitutional; it may run into freedom of speech problems.
That being said, why not go over and meet these girls the old-fashioned way? I have enough friends, from the Navy and elsewhere, who came back from the Philippines with wives, to know that this works.
[That being said, why not go over and meet these girls the old-fashioned way?]
I am already over "there" and I already have a girlfriend.
That is not the point.
This is a major rights take-away and, yes, I don't see how it is even a little bit constitutional.
Are there lawyers who can check on that? I am sitting in a hotel in Denmark now. If the desk clerk introduces me to her friend...is she breaking a US law because I didn't submit US government paperwork on my background?
This sounds sick. And yet the President signed the law happily because it was tucked inside another law and because, apparently, Republicans don't care about the rights of single males.