On his 14th birthday, boy weds 42-year-old

Mobile Register ^ | 03/30/03 | KAREN TOLKKINEN

[lawdude]

"Coincidence?"

A verrrry small gene pool.

[Delta 21]

Solution: Eat pizza while watching the Disney Channel!

Shuks! That there tv only geets Jerry Springer.

[ChemistCat]

14 is too young to marry in today's society, but that wasn't always so. History is full of tales, few recent, of boys that age doing the work of men. A 14-year-old wasn't always the spoiled, materialistic overgrown infant we see around us so much. Dave Barry's most recent column reminds me that there was a time when mid-teenagers could be trusted without direct adult supervision.

I also know a woman married to a man 20 years younger than she is. They sure got a lot of flack when they married...20 happy years ago. They're good for each other. Of course, he was in his 20s, not his teens, when they married. THAT makes a huge difference.

I suspect these parents have found a way to have someone else support their kid. Sad. But they're legal now.

[SquirrelKing]

Jerry Springer show

"That's messed up."

[FeliciaCat]

Why does the South do this to itself?

Its not just the south...go to a small town in rural Pennsylvania or some areas in upstate NY and check it out....

[ArrogantBustard]

said he is an ordained priest with the Old Catholic Church, a denomination that split off from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1800s.

Not a Catholic. Just another heretical schismatic. I expect them to do weird things.

[paws_and_whiskers]

AMEN!

[HumanaeVitae]

Could they be wrong?

Them? Nah. I mean, who would want to stand in the way of some 42 year old hag marrying a clueless 14 year old kid? Or someone who wants to marry their own sister? Mother? Father? /sarcasm