Well, it’s a crime in Georgia....
According to WSBTV in Georgia
“Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter is checking out reports that runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks may have broken off a previous engagement shortly before the wedding.”
Mr. Porter is investigating the ways in which Ms. Wilbanks may be charged with a crime, a felony if he can swing it. There’s no question but that her fellow Georgians are all het up about it. They thought they were grieving a heinous crime of kidnapping and goodness knows what against the flower of well to do white womanhood, a tragedy that unified.
Now they find that this uppity female took a look at her impending southern marriage and did something quite masculine about it: she took off.
A motivational speaker has published a self serving press release that offers to help women with the solution that Ms Wilbanks should have implemented:
“ women tend to gather with other women when faced with stress. ...a woman’s intuition prompts her to seek support and rapport with other women. By doing this, a woman can still maintain her composure and make better decisions about her next move. Had Wilbanks relied less on her masculine response of needing alone time and instead, used her feminine response of seeking comfort, she would have looked at her upcoming marriage in a new light.’”
Now there’s her crime: a masculine response. I imagine that’s a felony in most of the South and think about how important it is that a woman maintain her composure and see marriage in a new light.
Not the harsh light of morning that might reveal a future of endless boredom masked as service to others, disappearing behind your husband’s good name.
After all, isn’t that what all this fuss is about? Men run off and leave women at the altar daily. We understand that. We accept that. We rarely have the nation holding it’s breath and looking for the errant groom. I’ve never heard of a prosecutor trying to pin a felony on a wayward fellow. Nope. Not in this country.
Not in Georgia where decent outraged people like Mr. Porter have amended the state constitution to declare that marriage is defined as being between One Man and One Woman. Viva la differance...because after all, if marriage can exist between two men, or between two women, then we would see that marriage can exist between equals.
And I guess that’s a crime in Georgia.
“Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter is checking out reports that runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks may have broken off a previous engagement shortly before the wedding.”
Mr. Porter is investigating the ways in which Ms. Wilbanks may be charged with a crime, a felony if he can swing it. There’s no question but that her fellow Georgians are all het up about it. They thought they were grieving a heinous crime of kidnapping and goodness knows what against the flower of well to do white womanhood, a tragedy that unified.
Now they find that this uppity female took a look at her impending southern marriage and did something quite masculine about it: she took off.
A motivational speaker has published a self serving press release that offers to help women with the solution that Ms Wilbanks should have implemented:
“ women tend to gather with other women when faced with stress. ...a woman’s intuition prompts her to seek support and rapport with other women. By doing this, a woman can still maintain her composure and make better decisions about her next move. Had Wilbanks relied less on her masculine response of needing alone time and instead, used her feminine response of seeking comfort, she would have looked at her upcoming marriage in a new light.’”
Now there’s her crime: a masculine response. I imagine that’s a felony in most of the South and think about how important it is that a woman maintain her composure and see marriage in a new light.
Not the harsh light of morning that might reveal a future of endless boredom masked as service to others, disappearing behind your husband’s good name.
After all, isn’t that what all this fuss is about? Men run off and leave women at the altar daily. We understand that. We accept that. We rarely have the nation holding it’s breath and looking for the errant groom. I’ve never heard of a prosecutor trying to pin a felony on a wayward fellow. Nope. Not in this country.
Not in Georgia where decent outraged people like Mr. Porter have amended the state constitution to declare that marriage is defined as being between One Man and One Woman. Viva la differance...because after all, if marriage can exist between two men, or between two women, then we would see that marriage can exist between equals.
And I guess that’s a crime in Georgia.
posted by Sophia Pearl at 7:11 PM
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