UPDATE:

Apparently, I was not in on the gag and made a buttinski outta myself for falling for it…the following is not a real site. (Thank you Vic, the commenter, for pointing this out.)
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I was recently alerted to a website called “Marry Our Daughter“, where it features girls between the ages 14 and 17, along with their pictures and with price tags that range between $4,000 - $100,000 (dowry), asking men to marry them for the fee listed.

Where is this organization and where are these girls from? America! That’s right. The good ol’ USA. I thought for sure this most be an offshore site, because clearly this can’t be legal.

Here’s an ad direct from their homepage:

Kyra A.
Age: 14 ½,
Location: Southeast

Bride Price:
$27,995

Located on their FAQ page:

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.

I am horrified. If this is legal, why hasn’t this been exposed on Dateline or 20/20? Isn’t that what those tabloid news shows are supposed to do? Tell us about horrors that we never knew existed?

And, of course, they present themselves as Bible thumping fundamentalists that are prostituting these girls for the sake of God.

Crazy. This has got to be a pedophiles paradise. Where is the DCFS in all this?

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