Revolting, Disgusting, Appalling and I Hope ILLEGAL

I really like Saucygrrl and enjoyed discussions and lurking on her site, but I'm not at all sure I should be thankful in anyway for her introducing me to the most disgusting web site I have ever heard of: Marry Our Daughter.

Don't even click the link. It's a bunch of sick parents offering their 15-year-old daughters for marriage with a listed "bride price." They even claim to be Christian.

I have forwarded this link to my minister, who has in turn forwarded it to folks in law enforcement. Surely this isn't legal. I'm also sending it to a friend in the FBI who is involved in task forces designed to stop human trafficking.

What kind of people are these?

Angry Buttons, who is extremely witty and too quick for me to keep up with, posted the following comment about Marry Our Daughter in my post about people being grumpy about Christmas (it's all intertwined but I'm not going to explain). I'm going to bump it to here because it would be a shame if you missed it:

But I have to say, 'Marry Our Daughter', wow I had no idea such a site existed. I noticed the average age of the daughters to be around 15, which makes me wonder how many of them are actually willing participants.

I thought I’d make a proposal whilst I was there but the price was more than I could afford. Therefore I decided to base my ‘Bride Price’ on the Bible and followed one of their links to the Bible quotes that they've put up in justification of what they’re doing. Therein I found a price I’m sure I can afford and that they must accept as it is not only straight out of the Bible but it is a quote of their choice.

The Bride Price I offered...? A hundred Philistine foreskins.

Cross your fingers for me Anne and wish me luck. And when all is settled I’ll be sure and invite you to the wedding. After all, you are effectively Cupid in all this.

I'll be very curious about where Angry gets the Philistine foreskins -- and I don't even want to know what the parents of the bride might do with them.

Comments

[jae]

Sick. I hope someone locks them away for a long, long time. With the angry philistines who lost their foreskins.

[Venomous Kate]

I'm sick today, and with it being so close to Christmas it makes me grumpy thinking that I might miss out on the chance to build memories for my kids.

So, what with me grumpy and all, I figure I'd offer my services to help Angry acquire all the necessary foreskins.

[zoe]

that is ill. the hospital i work in circumcizes nearly every baby boy...i could get my hands on all those foreskins. no problem.

[Angry]

Thank you Anne... I often get referred to for my comments but this is the first time one has been bumped up to be a part of a post.
I’m glad you could see the humour in the situation without losing focus for your outrage, I'm impressed. Even in dire situations I still see a funny side, it’s a coping mechanism, but one that not everybody appreciates.
On the foreskins... who’d have thought it would be so difficult to get a hundred Philistine foreskins? Every grocery store I went into had pickled foreskins alright, but I didn’t think ‘Made in Spain’ would cut-it (excuse the pun). So I went into a local Deli and they had a large stock on hand and I bought a jar. You can see the jar here, http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/angrybuttons/pickles1.jpg I hope they don’t mind the Bay leaf and Peppercorns but according to the lovely Jewish lady in the Deli it’s the only way to have them.
Now I’ve just got to wait for the response to my offer.
Oh and by the way, reading the testimonials posted on that Buy Our Daughter site gives one a terrific insight into the motivation of the parents who say they have used this site.