Virginity and Government Payoffs

American Thinker ^ | 06/14/2013 | Jeannie DeAngelis

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In Madhya Pradesh, the second largest state in India and home to over 75 million people, the government takes sharing the wealth to new levels. In the tribal district of Betul in the Hardu village of Chicholi block, the state government under a social welfare scheme called Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana sponsors a mass marriage ceremony to ensure poor women without dowries marry. Part of the draw includes a government-provided wedding gift of 15,000 rupees, which amounts to a $256 payment. Under the contract, couples from "economically weaker sections" receive items like a mangalsutra, a bicycle, some utensils, and clothing.

Despite the big payoff, things must be pretty rough in Hardu village because, in order to qualify for the $256 wedding gift, under government order, the women recently had to first undergo a virginity/pregnancy test. Why anything other than a virginity test would be necessary is a mystery. Obviously, pregnant women are not virgins, so if you fail the virginity test, why bother with the pregnancy test?

Nonetheless, minutes before the ceremony was due to start, while waiting in line to get married, 400 women were herded over to a nearby government school where two district health workers were assigned the public service job of inspecting genitals to see if the ladies remained uncorrupted. As suspected, nine pregnant welfare cheats were attempting to fraudulently dupe the government out of the wedding gift.

Although the criteria are different, the situation in India proves that government involvement in the sex lives of its citizens is an international phenomenon.

In India a bride's virginity is highly prized and pre-marital sex is forbidden. The Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojna sponsors weddings and then, if the bride has never had sex, endows the new couples with their government-sanctioned gift items/15,000-rupee reward.

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Back in the good old USA, it is the OPPOSITE. Ask Sandra Fluke what she wants the government to do... and what the Democratic party did in response -— THEY GAVE HER a VOICE IN THEIR CONVENTION JUST BEFORE JOE BIDEN’s SPEECH.

So, the American government not only encourages premarital sex, it practically pays you to indulge in it. Sexually active American women who are single, and especially those who are single and pregnant, receive more government gifts than women who preserve their virginity and wait until marriage before having sex.

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The ancient Israelites had a different way of handling this (see Deuteronomy 22 and “tokens of virginity”...if groom discovered that his bride was not a virgin, she could be stoned to death for “playing the whore” in her father’s house).