Sorry I couldn't send you a photo of my unicorn, he's out in the meadow chasing butterflies right now...LOL!
Posted on 03/21/2014 7:05:51 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
Female MPs in Kenya have stormed out of a late-night parliamentary session in a row over the legalisation of polygamy.
The law is intended to bring civil law, where a man is only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.
But male MPs voted to amend the new marriage bill to allow men to take as many wives as they like without consulting existing spouses.
Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give prior approval.
The women walked out in disgust over the matter.
'This is Africa'
MP Samuel Chepkong'a, who proposed the amendment, said that when a woman got married under customary law, she understood that the marriage was open to polygamy, so no consultation was necessary, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reports.
Mohammed Junet, an MP representing a constituency from the western Nyanza province, agreed.
"When you marry an African woman, she must know the second one is on the way and a third wife… this is Africa," Kenya's Capital News website quotes him as saying.
Plans to ban the payment of bride prices were dropped - although a person must be 18 to marry and this will apply to all cultures.
Proposals to ensure equal property and inheritance rights were also watered down - a woman will be entitled to 30% of matrimonial property after death or divorce.
Kenya's marriage bill: Specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman, but does not explicitly ban custom of an infertile woman marrying a younger woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Your simple faith and trust in The Daily Nation and Sally Jacobs is, as I noted before, quite touching.
I can only assume that your simple faith and trust extends to all mainstream media and writers about Zero.
We’re having the most beautiful spring here. The azaleas are in full bloom. I just received a new batch of mail order koi—butterflies. They are breathtaking; mere words could never describe their rainbow-hued graceful beauty. Settling them in takes time. Very, very enjoyable time. Unlike time spent posting to Mal-Valers, one of the weirdest, creepiest theories on the Net. You can’t imagine how good a break from it can be unless and until you take one. Why not give it a try? You may discover that real life is pretty amazing, and well worth the time.
Sorry I couldn't send you a photo of my unicorn, he's out in the meadow chasing butterflies right now...LOL!
Looks like I’m living rent free in the Mal-Valers’ heads. I wouldn’t advertise that I had nothing better to do than post images to a person who isn’t even following the discussion any more. [I may get back to it eventually. Just zero time for it right now.] But if that is your ‘life’, I guess it’s the best you can do.
Oh come on, you haven’t got the nounce to follow what I do write, so I thought I would send you something pretty you would understand. Can’t please some people, no matter how hard one tries. Have a nice day and bless you, sweetheart. I’ll send you that unicorn pic as soon as he comes back.
Yes, I understand Disney, and their Gay Pride Weeks, and Gay Weekends, and Gay Pride Days, and Gay Pride History, and Gay Parades. I’m sure they were delighted with the free publicity you gave them, & on a conservative site no less.
Bambi is gay? Say it isn't so...
You forgot Olympia Snowe.
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