Posted on 11/18/2006 1:15:37 PM PST by SkyPilot
PARIS (AFP) - The Church of Scientology provides for several kinds of wedding ceremony for its followers, but according to the most traditional the husband "may promise to provide her (his wife) with "a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat."
US actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes will provide perhaps the most high-profile Scientologists' wedding to date this weekend.
And according to unconfirmed reports in the Italian media, American Scientology leader David Miscavige will fly in from Los Angeles to preside over the event.
According to the Scientologists' book "The Background, Ministry, Ceremonies and Sermons of the Scientology Religion", there are five versions of the Scientologist wedding ceremony: traditional, informal, single ring, double ring, and concise double ring, all of varying length and formality.
Scientology's "traditional ceremony" includes such advice to the groom as "Now -----, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat.
"All caprice if you will, but still they need them."
The bride is told: "Hear well, sweet -----, for promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him that you may have necessities and follies, too."
Doofi works, too.
Run, Katie! RUN!
Did you hear Jimmy Kimmel on this? He said something like "Tom spent the morning with his friends while Katie spent the morning sewing her bedsheets into a rope ladder." LOL!
If only I could hear the thoughts of Brooke Shields as she witnesses those vows.
My thoughts exactly.
I bet her Catholic parents are just as horrified about their daughters choices. Baby first, cult marraige with nutball vows and who knows what next....
Scientology weddings are not legal unions in the country they chose (Italy?) so they still have to do a civil union.
Where in the ceremony does Tom bed the ring boy?
I read that while there is a silly ceremony, there will not be a civil ceremony. Katie has a kid to cement child support, but she's darn stupid if she doesn't have a good lawyer to write a palimony agreement.
he already had the kitty that's the kitten he is carrying around.
The baby (sorry for picking on an innocent bambino) looks like it should be starring in the Omen as a female Damian. Kinda creepy looking.
Hollywood is a ghost town today.
So does DingleBerry
"... an umbrella, a can of Spam, and a hot air balloon."
How romantic.
If you're fortunate enough to be invited to the reception, don't forget to try the placenta on rye.
I can't stand Tom "Has Been" Cruise.
The Book of Common Prayer is good enough for me.
That's funny! "A pan, a comb, perhaps a cat". So his obligations to her are something for cooking his food, something to keep her looking pretty so he doesn't lose interest, and something other than a baby for her to take care of.
And her primary obligation to him is to support him in his career.
Remember when you used to be an actress, Katie?
I clicked on the link, and I cannot believe that I actually read everything on it!
Total Moonbat alert!
Fellow Cult Members: "He's a Scientologist and he's OK, no matter what the psychiatrists say!"
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