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Lookee, Lookee, thirty or forty years ago, the great state of Alabama marriage laws allowed for girls aged thirteen to sixteen could get married with parental approval. Girls of sixteen and older could marry without parent approval. Today the law states that girls sixteen to eighteen can get legally married with parental approval. Girls eighteen and older can marry without parent approval. Knowing Alabama as well as I do, thousands of girls aged thirteen to sixteen dated with older men heavily, and got married during that time frame thirty and forty years ago!!! So.....these young ladies accusing Judge Roy Moore...

...In reproving yet again today, October 14, “the fateful letter that has received much more attention than it deserves,” Fr. Federico Lombardi – together with a substantial army of journalists and prelates – seems to have forgotten that the first to squawk over the news of that confidential act was not a presumed emissary of the signers but the vaticanista who is friendliest with and closest of all to Pope Francis, his frequent guest at Santa Marta and his interviewer many times over: Andrea Tornielli, coordinator of the portal “Vatican Insider.” Tornielli in fact broke the news of the step...

This One Goes to Thirteen Falling oil prices, a halt in interest-rate hikes, and a wave of hedge-fund buying sent the Dow above 12,000. Now they’ll take it higher. By James J. Cramer o ahead, dismiss Dow 12,000. Virtually everyone I know on Wall Street will tell you to do so: “Small-time index, relic of another era, not important to signal a change.” To which I say, “Nonsense.” The Dow is not only the most representative snapshot of the American economy, but the venerable, oft-quoted index is still the one that entices people into the market. The broader averages will...

Re-focus Halloween! If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ... "When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness." (excerpt from email) GREAT RESOURCE SITE for Teachers, Parents & Students.

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

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