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To: tj005
I understand. I wish it were otherwise I was not publishing what I think but these reports I have read make more sense then the bugaboo that we are under assualt by forces of gayness or something.

Our marriage laws - divorce laws whatever they are called are killers to men. Nature has a way of finding a balance - it used to be that families had to bribe a man to marry their daughter thus the dowry. We will see that again?? (I forgot to add the question mark)

53 posted on 01/24/2004 10:12:13 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro
Our marriage laws - divorce laws whatever they are called are killers to men. Nature has a way of finding a balance - it used to be that families had to bribe a man to marry their daughter thus the dowry. We will see that again?? (I forgot to add the question mark)

A historical note: In early medieval Europe, a man paid a bride price to the family of the girl and a morning gift to the girl herself. In the latter half of the Middle Ages, the dowry appeared -- The family of the girl in effect bought a husband for her. This seems to indicate that in the early Middle Ages there was a surplus of men, in the latter, a surplus of women.

To this day in the Muslim world, a man pays a bride price --there probably is a shortage of women due to polygamy.

55 posted on 01/25/2004 9:16:28 AM PST by Siamese Princess
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