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Divorce, American style: What if one mate says no?
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Posted on 03/19/2004 4:58:57 PM PST by CatherineSiena

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1 posted on 03/19/2004 4:58:57 PM PST by CatherineSiena
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To: CatherineSiena
When I was young, this would not even have been news. Thanks to the Sexual Revolution, it's a Man-Bites-Dog story. We are not better off.
2 posted on 03/19/2004 5:26:44 PM PST by madprof98
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To: CatherineSiena
Aren't these the Mary Foundation people?
3 posted on 03/19/2004 5:56:52 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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Theutberga denied the charges and demanded a trial by ordeal. A stand-in jumped into a kettle of boiling water and emerged unscathed, proving Theutberga's innocence.

Is it me, or is this just a tad bit illogical?

4 posted on 03/19/2004 5:58:32 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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"Is it me, or is this just a tad bit illogical?"

I don't know that trial by ordeal has been thought logical for a few hundred years, at least.
5 posted on 03/19/2004 6:18:27 PM PST by dsc
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yeah, but by proxy? lol!
6 posted on 03/19/2004 6:21:02 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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No, no, no, just the same last name. Bai and Bud Macfarlane are the founders of the Mary Foundation.
8 posted on 03/19/2004 6:35:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Thank you for the correction. I should not have jumped to conclusions based on the name; I retract the previous post unreservedly.
10 posted on 03/19/2004 6:37:11 PM PST by Loyalist (Tony Clement for Leader: Conservative Party of Canada!)
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If those two are not one and the same he'd better start making that very clear or more people will think it's him!
11 posted on 03/19/2004 6:41:25 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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Careful, that is not the same person. His name is not William Macfarlane, it's Bud Macfarlane Jr. and his wife's name is Bai, not Marie. You better apologize, that's gossip, and false.
12 posted on 03/19/2004 6:42:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Oops, I didn't see that post. The mailin address says Fairview Park. I don't know which diocese that's in.
13 posted on 03/19/2004 6:43:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Beat you to it once I did a little more checking. Had the post pulled myself before you reported it.

14 posted on 03/19/2004 6:43:47 PM PST by Loyalist (Tony Clement for Leader: Conservative Party of Canada!)
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Possibly. They seem in the same age range too.
15 posted on 03/19/2004 6:44:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I didn't report it, but it's good that you pulled it.
16 posted on 03/19/2004 6:45:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Women used to have proxies (champions) in trial by combat, too.
17 posted on 03/19/2004 6:47:08 PM PST by dsc
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and the same number of kids!
18 posted on 03/19/2004 6:48:47 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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Hopefully the have another child by now. That would make for some terrible confusion.
19 posted on 03/19/2004 6:51:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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the guy who called his wife "squaw,"

Ok nobody can tell me that he didn't show signs of being a major jerk before the marriage. These kind of things don't just suddenly pop out of nowhere.

So why on earth did she marry him in the first place?

20 posted on 03/19/2004 6:56:10 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proudly out of step with the majority since 1973)
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