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Outrage as French judge annuls Muslim marriage over bride's virginity lie
The Times (UK) ^ | May 31, 2008 | Charles Bremner in Paris

Posted on 06/01/2008 9:08:54 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Government shouldn’t be involved in recognizing marriages at all. As long as they are, though, annulling a marriage on the grounds of ANY sort of fraud doesn’t strike me as a problem. If this bride represented to her would-be husband that she was a virgin, and he married her in the belief that she had told the truth, under basic contract law, the contract is null and void. Same concept would apply if a man represented to a prospective bride that he was very wealthy, and she discovered after the wedding that all the fancy cars and homes he’d used to convince her of this were actually on loan from friends, and he was actually up to ears in debt, marriage contract should be null and void, just like any business contract in which one party had used to fraud to induce the other party to enter into the contract.


21 posted on 06/01/2008 10:37:47 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Sherman Logan
While I’m not a huge fan of the Muslim obsession with virginity, I fail to see why this “escape clause” should be disallowed simply because the lie involves a sexual matter.


22 posted on 06/01/2008 10:38:20 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“He could not display the blood-stained sheet that is traditionally exhibited as proof of the bride’s “purity”.

That is flat-out gross! What country would want people like that living in its boundries?


23 posted on 06/01/2008 10:44:55 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

“What country would want people like that living in its boundries?”

US, Canada, all of Europe, Australia... Fill in the blanks.


24 posted on 06/01/2008 10:58:37 AM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: Cicero

Does the man have to be a virgin?
Does he have to prove it?


25 posted on 06/01/2008 11:54:08 AM PDT by Taffini (Mr. Pippin and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Yup. Somehow we’ve gone from thinking that sexual misdeeds should be treated more strictly than others, to thinking they should be treated the same, to the notion that deceit and perjury don’t matter if they involve sex in any way.


26 posted on 06/01/2008 12:06:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Well,...they don’t wait for an invite.


27 posted on 06/01/2008 12:19:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Taffini

I haven’t heard it for a while, but there used to be a phrase right here in the West: “double standard.”

That was mostly resolved in the secular culture by dropping the rules for both parties.


28 posted on 06/01/2008 12:33:37 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wonder if the groom was a virgin?


29 posted on 06/01/2008 3:44:16 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wonder if the groom was a virgin?


30 posted on 06/01/2008 3:44:24 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: donna

Sorry, I thought that was the implication of your response. She was impartial to getting a disease because she didn’t inquire into his state of virginity.


31 posted on 06/02/2008 5:35:09 AM PDT by BabsC
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