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What Was America's First Marriage Tradition?

Nicholas Ferroni | Posted 09.01.2012 | Gay Voices
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Nicholas Ferroni

What I found actually contradicts both proponents and critics of the notion of "traditional marriage." In fact, the only people who practice America's first marriage tradition are often the butts of jokes today.

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Laura Bassett

Mail Order Bride Company President Lobbying To Weaken Protections For Abused Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.08.2012 | Politics
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A top official at an anti-domestic violence advocacy group that has been encouraging the House GOP to roll back protections for immigrant victims in t...

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South American Mail Order Bride Tour, Mon Amour

Harmon Leon | Posted 06.14.2012 | Home
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Harmon Leon

Everyone has something to offer. The older men represent security. The young Colombian women represent not dying alone. Everyone has needs.

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The Little Bride

Anna Solomon | Posted 03.11.2012 | Weddings
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Anna Solomon

My novel, The Little Bride, begins in a basement in Odessa, where 16-year-old maidservant Minna Losk is being given her "Look" - an examination to see if she's sufficiently "fit" (i.e., "virginal") to become a mail-order bride to America.

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Laura Stampler

Lonely? Win A Wife On The Radio

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 11.08.2011 | Women
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If you thought that the most degrading thing a radio contest has done was make a person dressed in a wonder woman costume jump into a 400-gallon pool ...

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If Hello Kitty Had A Mouth She'd Be Screaming By Now

Czerina Salud | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Czerina Salud

When the sexual currency of Filipina women is appropriated by everyone from American actors to Filipino nationals to H&M workers, something is not right.

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An Apology Regarding My Letterman Appearance and a Clarification on U.S. Autoworkers

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Alec Baldwin

While on the David Letterman program, I joked that I might need a "mail-order bride" to achieve the goal of having more children in my life. I believe that most people understood that this was a joke and took it as such.

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