Fundie wackos reach a new low.

[cloudbase]

http://marryourdaughter.com

Child abuse, anyone?

[TheUniverse]

1. It won't load.

I assume its some sort of forced marriage. Is it of a minor? If you feel some sort of abuse is going on here, report it to their state's DCFS.

[ThomCat]

10. An "introduction service" for fundie families to set their teenaged

daughters up on dates.
:puke:

It's even worse than that though. It looks, seriously, like a site to set teen aged girls up with older men.

[tsuki]

59. No, they are selling their daughters. Yes, minors now. Pictures and

all.

[MrModerate]

2. Yeah. Site is a no-go. Either it's crawling with crazies . . .

Or the ISP cut 'em off for reasons that can only be guessed.

[TheUniverse]

5. I found a version of it through google cache.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ZhC5EEn6UkYJ:www.marryourdaughter.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_frontpage%26Itemid%3D1%26limit%3D5%26limitstart%3D15+www.marryourdaughter.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a


It seems like some sort of auction site to buy women for marriage. And many of them are minors. This is horrible and has to be illegal. If anyone can find out who these people are, please report them!

[tsuki]

60. I got to the site. The FAQs, just the FAQs:

Q: IS YOUR SERVICE LEGAL?
A: Absolutely. Within the United States girls can marry as young as 13 years old with parental permission, and the Bride Price is a custom of long standing, mentioned many times in the Bible, and as such is a protected religious practice. Click HERE for a listing of the age limits and legal requirements in various states. Click HERE for what the Bible says on Bride Price.

Q: WHAT IS A BRIDE PRICE?
A: The bride price is an ancient custom, somewhat like a dowry. A man wishing to marry a woman would offer her family a Bride Price in cash or kind, or sometimes offer to work for their family.

For more on the Bride Price, see:

HERE
or
HERE
or
HERE

Q: CAN AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE BE A HAPPY ONE?
A: If both parties work hard at it, yes, it can. The divorce rate for arranged marriages is exactly the same as those for marriages that are not pre-arranged.

Q: WHY IS YOUR SERVICE LIMITED TO MEN FROM AMERICA?
A: We need to be able to follow up on the satisfaction of our customers, which is too difficult to do in foreign countries.

Q: WHAT IF MY MARRIAGE DOESN’T WORK OUT?
A: We feel that marriage is a lifetime commitment. But in the unhappy event that your marriage doesn’t work out, then whatever conditions have been negotiated between the husband and the wife’s family will apply. Remember, we are an introduction service – we do not finalize arrangements between bride and groom nor are we involved in enforcing agreements

Q: WHAT IF NO ONE PROPOSES TO MY DAUGHTER?
A: In the unlikely event that no one proposes after six months, we will return 50 percent of your listing fee.

Q:WHAT IF NO ONE ACCEPTS MY PROPOSAL?
A: In that case, you might want to closely examine how you are proposing and how carefully you are matching your likes and dislikes, your goals and dreams, to those of your prospective bride.

[ceile]

3. WTF?

That's a joke, right? I couldn't get past the home page, but 15 years old and looking for "an adult to start her life with"?!!

[countingbluecars]

7. A joke or an invite to perverts.

Either way, I'm sorry I clicked on it.

[Lorien]

12. Their FAQ page says that they will marry off girls as young as 13!

In most states that will lead to pedophilia. Sick, sick, sick!

And asking a "bride price"?? these fundies really do see women as chattel.

:puke: :grr:

[Lex]

24. Read their Testimonial page and tell me if you think this is real:

"Thank God for your site! Our daughter was really nervous walking down the aisle, but she seems okay now and the money we got let us keep our farm and even add on a few acres."

—Mrs. Addrien L.


"At first we were worried that Janine was too young to get married, but then her new husband bought her a house and a car and jewelry and the money we got let us buy a house for ourselves. Getting out of the trailer park at our age was the best thing that ever happened to us, and it’s all thanks to Marry Our Daughter!"

—Mr. Jack M.


“I was SO scared getting married so young, but my husband is an okay guy and I am SO proud that because of me my parents were able to get their first brand-new car and take the trip they always wanted to. I couldn’t have done it without your site!"

—Katrina K., married at 14


“Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"

—Mrs. James P.


“My mother thought I was getting ‘too frisky” and that I had to get married right away before I lost my purity to some high school boy. Marry Our Daughter found me a husband and my parents were able to keep their house and pay off my mother’s medical bills. I was so glad I could help them, and being married at my age (I'm 16 now) has a lot of advantages, like my own credit card!"

—Nancy A.

[northernsoul]

40. This HAS TO be a joke!

"Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi!"

Sounds like something from Landover Baptist.

[youthere]

47. That was my thought...this HAS to be a joke.

[eggplant]

4. Google cache is your friend.

http://72.14.209.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-12,GGLG:en&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fmarryourdaughter.com%2F

[cloudbase]

6. They are underaged.

The website states that things are legal, that these are just arranged marriages. Each "bride" comes with a cash price, though. I think that word is getting out about the site and they can't handle the traffic.

[mudesi]

8. Screen shots

Refresh the page and it will eventually load.

[ironflange]

9. Well, it loaded for me

And, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to be sick. "New low" is not strong enough, I suggest "all-time low."

edit: I can't get past the first screen, the server is probably overloaded. You know what kind of gear these sort of places use. . .

[Monk06]

11. Check out the testimonials page. It's a spoof site.

[Lex]

15. Yeah, it looks spoofy.

nt

[Canuckistanian]

36. Yeah, I see that now

Very, very subtle, though. Clever.

[blogslut]

13. This is a bad bad site

And that link needs to be removed. I am so not kidding.

[regnaD kciN]

46. Some people here can't recognize a hoax...

I am so not kidding.

You are so not thinking. :eyes:

[fasttense]

14. What person in their right mind

would humiliate their daughter this way? It is basically selling them off. But hey, at least we can't gamble on line.

If you want to propose to a 14 year old, here are the rules:

To propose to the daughter of your choice, please first read through our dos and don’ts and then fill out the form below for our review. Any form that violates our policies as outlined in the dos and don’ts will be rejected. We have numerous proposals to go through and then the family needs to decide, so please allow 6-8 weeks for a final response. If a Daughter chooses someone else in the meantime, you will be notified.

DOs:

Be romantic! This is a marriage proposal, not a business transaction
Explain why you have chosen this particular daughter to marry out of all the others
Detail what you are looking for in a wife – what you expect out of a life-partner, the qualities that are important to you.
Describe what kind of life you would be able to provide for a wife

DON’Ts:

Do not be sexual or sexually explicit in any way.
Do not describe the Daughter’s body other than to say things like “pretty” or “beautiful smile.”
Do not specify contact info – we will provide your form to your prospective bride’s family and it is up to them to contact you either through us or directly. It is fine to write in general terms such as “northeast” or “southwest.”
Do not specify your age, except in a range such as “20s, 30s, 40s, 50s” etc.
Do not specify your income save as above in terms of what you would be able to provide
Do not include or attach a photo (you can’t anyway) – the Daughter may ask you for a photo or not, at her discretion.
Don’t include your full name.
Do not propose to multiple Daughters or all your proposals will be rejected.

[lapfog_1]

16. 14 year olds!

From their mission statement:


Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their daughters.

Those who wish to list their Daughters with our site should click on SIGN UP OUR DAUGHTER on our main page for a form to fill out.

Those who wish to propose to a specific Daughter should click on the PROPOSE button on the Daughter’s INFO CARD.

And there are bid prices for each kid! some near $50K.

This isn't a Christian dating site for teens, it's an arranged marriage site for pedophiles and whack jobs.

[Birthmark]

17. Uh, that has GOT to be illegal.

Anyone report this yet?

[Lex]

18. Some here think it's just a spoof site.

A parody, a practical joke or something.

[Birthmark]

20. Not funny.

And I'll laugh at just about anything.

[TheUniverse]

19. Please Everyone report this.

I dont know which organization to report it to, but this site has got to go.

http://www.marryourdaughter.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=5&limitstart=10


Look her, someone is buying a 13 year old girl for marriage for 50,000 dollars. This website is beyond sick.

[jgraz]

21. I'm guessing spoof at this point, but you never know

The fundies have no limits when it comes to fanatical scumbaggery, but I'd guess that a "for-real" site like this would have garnered a lot of media attention.

[blogslut]

22. Please, I am begging now

If you folks want to report this site, then go here:

http://www.asacp.org/page.php?content=report

But for god's sake, stop opening up the pages on that site!

[Lex]

23. LOOK at the Testimonials please.

Do you think this is real? I do not:

"Thank God for your site! Our daughter was really nervous walking down the aisle, but she seems okay now and the money we got let us keep our farm and even add on a few acres."

—Mrs. Addrien L.


"At first we were worried that Janine was too young to get married, but then her new husband bought her a house and a car and jewelry and the money we got let us buy a house for ourselves. Getting out of the trailer park at our age was the best thing that ever happened to us, and it’s all thanks to Marry Our Daughter!"

—Mr. Jack M.


“I was SO scared getting married so young, but my husband is an okay guy and I am SO proud that because of me my parents were able to get their first brand-new car and take the trip they always wanted to. I couldn’t have done it without your site!"

—Katrina K., married at 14


“Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"

—Mrs. James P.


“My mother thought I was getting ‘too frisky” and that I had to get married right away before I lost my purity to some high school boy. Marry Our Daughter found me a husband and my parents were able to keep their house and pay off my mother’s medical bills. I was so glad I could help them, and being married at my age (I'm 16 now) has a lot of advantages, like my own credit card!"

—Nancy A.

[blogslut]

27. No.

I will not open that page. You want to see what I am talking about? Check out the aboutus wiki for that site:

http://www.aboutus.org/MarryOurDaughter.com

Look, I work for the internet porn industry. If this were posted on one of our message boards, we would delete the link and the post. Do you feel me?

[Lex]

30. I posted what was on the testimonials page so you wouldn't have

to open the link.

It's just a stupid spoof site designed to rile people up.

[blogslut]

33. I don't frigging care

Did you read the wiki? Those are the keywords embedded in the header. I ain't touching that site.

[Lex]

34. Whatever.

If people get reeled in, I guess the idiot who put up site is happy.

PS - I don't think it's funny, just idiotic.

[blogslut]

35. Fine

Don't listen to me. And whatever you do, don't clear your history or your cookies.

[spoony]

57. which makes one wonder

how the OP found it?

[TheUniverse]

26. I reported it.

I don't know if its real or fake, but dammit, this is sick. Better to be on the safe side.

[blogslut]

29. good

Now maybe you can convince the mods to remove the link off of DU.

[MrModerate]

25. Spoof or straightforward fraud . . .

Hard to tell, since I can only access the the cached pages graciously posted by other DUers.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Click on the link, then reload

It seems to work for every page

[Canuckistanian]

28. Look at this one - definitely child abuse:

Courtney P.
Age: 13,
Location: South

Courtney’s grandmother married at 13, her mother married at 13, and Courtney has decided she wants to keep the tradition going. She would prefer to stay close to her large extended southern family and loves farm or at least rural life.

[Lex]

32. LOL! You believe that?

Because she's "Southern" I guess.

[Canuckistanian]

37. No, I read the testimonials

But hey, people have been prosecuted here in Canada for arranged child marriages as young as that - or younger.

I guess it would be stupid to put it on a website.

[Lex]

38. Reminds me a bit of the first time I read Betty Bower's site

which is a religious spoof site. I wasn't sure at first.

http://www.bettybowers.com/

[cloudbase]

39. I could have been had.

Perhaps it's an offshoot of Landover Baptist.

[Monk06]

41. Changing my opinion on spoof per post #11. It appears to be a kiddy porn hookup site based

in Scottsdale Arizona

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MARRYOURDAUGHTER.COM
Created on: 09-Jul-07
Expires on: 10-Jul-08
Last Updated on: 09-Jul-07

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration [e-mail]
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
[phone] Fax -- [phone]

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration [e-mail]
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
[phone] Fax -- [phone]

Domain servers in listed order:
NS57.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS58.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

[geek_sabre]

42. Domains by Proxy is based in Scottsdale, AZ, not this site

Nearly every person with a personal site who wants to keep their personal contact info out of WHOIS searches uses this service (particularly for domains purchased through Godaddy.com).

If you go to my personal website (primarily a high school biology page), Domains by Proxy is listed as the registrant as well.

[blogslut]

43. That's not the point

The point is that the site is using META TAG keywords, written especially to lure pedos. Please read the aboutus wiki, provided by domaintools.com There you will find the keywords of that site listed. The link is safe because it's coming from domaintools.com and not the site posted in the OP:

http://www.aboutus.org/MarryOurDaughter.com

[geek_sabre]

44. I was responding to someone else's post

but thanks.

[regnaD kciN]

45. It's a JOKE...

And you know who the joke is on, don't you? People who take it seriously, and go off on a self-righteous rant (being careful to point out how sick the site made they themselves feel) about those EEEEEEEVVVVIILLL fundamentalists and how they're encouraging pedophilia. :eyes:

[SidDithers]

50. And by some of the responses in this thread...

the joke seems to have worked.

Maybe the problem with the site was that it was too subtle. But then again, sometimes the best humour happens when you're not quite sure that it is a joke.

Sid

[noonwitch]

48. It's got to be a joke-no way would the police not have gotten them by now.

It's funny. But the listings are for underage girls, and there is a price listed. That is a violation of the Mann act, most likely.

[GOTV]

49. I don't think it's a joke. I think it's some sort of scam

A joke site would have embedded keywords like these:

"preteen, virgin, sex, teens, marriage, marry, slave, matchmaker, bride, mail-order, underage, young, money, naked, child, kids, daughter, teenage, juvenile, escort, buy""

[IndianaJones]

51. Jokes on you....not fundies. nt.

[LibertyLover]

52. OK - that site seriously creeped me out -

especially the ages of the girls the ads are about. Dare I hope that it is a spoof site?

[spoony]

53. I love it when people use easily identifiable hoaxes to attack

religion. And people say believers are gullible? Shit.

[Lex]

54. The reason it's somewhat believeable is because fundies are wacko.

nt

[spoony]

55. And so is the blind, ambitious hatred directed at anything resembling them.

[Lex]

56. Defend them if you must.

There's a reason the founding fathers wanted them out of politics and saw them as a threat to democracy itself.

[spoony]

58. Threadjack if you must.

This thread is about the stupidity of people who will, literally, believe anything to support their prejudices.

[Lex]

61. Threadjack?

Um, yeah.