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Oh, the poor Europeans...
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 20:37 Whose daughters can no longer be given away in marriage by their fathers; David Pryce-Jones blogs at National Review on the EU Gender Equality Bill:
... One provision of this preposterous and impudent measure is that fathers are no longer allowed to give away their daughters in the traditional church ceremony. Apparently that is to treat daughters as chattels. The whole European Union is on the point of breaking up, Greece is in flames and the Germans about to rebel, several countries in the eurozone are bankrupt beyond redemption, the euro itself has failed and soon there may be no currency for Europeans to trade in--and the giant statesmen of Brussels come up with a prohibition on fathers giving away their daughters in marriage as fathers have done in country after country, century after century....
I expect that the various national Equality Bills will soften the hardest edges of this Eurononsense but, pft, when the entire edifice collapses this, too, will pass.
