WOMENS' RIGHTS WRONG?

"There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind." - Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

REAL LAWS PROTECTING WOMENS' RIGHTS
In Vermont, women have the right to wear false teeth only after obtaining written permission from their husbands.

In South Carolina women have the right to be beaten on the court house steps - but only on Sundays.

In Michigan, a woman has the right to cut her own hair, but only after receiving her husband's permission.

In Elizabeth, New Jersey, a woman has the right to walk down Broad Street without wearing a petticoat on any day but Sunday.

In Merryville, Missouri, women are denied the right to wear corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."

In October, Clinton told the Des Moines Register newspaper that "I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here...when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? - Chicago Tribune, October 24th, 2007

I'm certainly glad to see that Mz C isn't influenced by special interests. -2q(Jim)

LAWS PROTECTING MATRIMONY
In New Orleans, Louisiana, it is illegal for anyone claiming to be a palm reader, fortune teller, mystic healer or any other magic-possessing hoodwinker to offer up marriage services.

There is some serious girl power going on down in Alabama, where women are entitled to keep any and all possessions that they acquired prior to the marriage in the event of a divorce, but no such allowance is made for the man. (Mz C at work, again?)

For several embarrassing months in late 2007 and early 2008, Arkansas state law mistakenly allowed persons of any age, even tiny toddlers, to marry as long as they had parental consent. The gaff was made when a minimum age requirement was accidentally left out of an amended marriage law aimed at establishing eighteen as the legal age of non-parental consented marriage. The law was finally corrected in April of 2008.

In Montana, a couple can marry even if neither of them is present. This miracle marriage is done by way of a “double proxy” ceremony. This type of marriage is arranged through a lawyer, who then hires two proxies (anyone with a free afternoon and a desire for some extra cash) to come sit before the judge, recite the vows and sign the marriage license on behalf of the absent bride and groom.

And how would you like it if someone walked up your front steps and introduced themselves as your new mate because some proxie person said your name at the right (wrong?) time? - 2q(Jim)

In North Carolina, it’s against the law to “pretend” to be married when registering for a hotel room. On the other hand, if the couple checking into the honeymoon suite is legitimately hitched but can’t “close the deal” due to one or both parties being sexually impotent, the marriage can be declared null and void.

With products like Levitra and Viagra on the market, this law faces a very limited future. - 2q(Jim)

In South Carolina, if a man over 16 proposes marriage to an unwed woman without actually intending to marry her, he’s guilty of a misdemeanor under the Offenses Against Morality and Decency. However, the whole thing is null and void if the accused man can prove that at the time of the alleged seduction the woman in question was behaving “lewd and unchaste.”