Ad for virgin daughter strikes sour note at Christian magazine

[KamaAina]

Not. The. Onion.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/Son-in-law-ad-strikes-sour-note-at-Christian-6875302.php

Christianity Today's chief editor Mark Galli has issued embarrassed apologies for a classified ad appearing in his publication's March edition that was placed by a parent soliciting a son-in-law for a "godly, gorgeous, athletic, educated, careered, humorous, traveled, bilingual" virgin daughter.

Ostensibly, the winning candidate, "unworthy but becoming less so daily," would fill an elder position at a Chicago-area church....

Oversights understandably occur, and inappropriate items can slip past the keenest-eyed editor, but at least some readers of Religion News Service's account of the episode were not mollified.

"What is more genuinely orthodox and biblical than treating your daughter like chattel property to be sold off to a suitor?" wrote one. "This is simply a matter of saying out loud behavior and ideas where are generally accepted in the group, but are not said explicitly."

Well, chalk up another vote for Cruz.

[Cleita]

1. Ahem. Will the prospective grooms have the mid-wives examine her before

he makes the deal?

[haikugal]

5. Yeah, like there isn't a thriving business in replacing hymens...

Sick, repressed losers.

[Arazi]

2. Wheaton IL why am I not surprised

fundyville capital of the U.S.

[HughBeaumont]

9. I got to visit this place!

I never thought there could be more fundies in any one place than Colorado Springs or Southern Ohio.

[haikugal]

3. How can people stay involved with religion when this kind of thing goes on?

What year is this?

[yellowcanine]

4. How Old Testament of Him. What, no cows from the young man required?

[malthaussen]

6. "Careered"

New word on me.

One thing does puzzle me, however. The prospective bride's qualifications would seem to indicate that she would not be satisfied as a chattel trophy wife. Wouldn't that disqualify her?

-- Mal

[Solly Mack]

7. He forgot to demand a few goats.

[HughBeaumont]

8. And on top of all that . . .

. . . you get a grown adult who thinks of women as property and believes in an imaginary friend who will smite his enemies and makes life better for him simultaneously as your Father in Law.

Get the bats out to beat that line of suitors off!!!