Here's a bizarre one for you: a straight couple that actually got married in the Year of Our Lord, 2009.
Stranger still, the events surrounding this marriage led both proud, excited, relieved families to press their children to seek an immediate divorce. The pressure proved unbearable for the bride and groom and so, at 14, the female member of this conjoined union becomes Israel's youngest-ever divorcee...
Here are the facts, as reported by the BBC, Ha'aretz, and other overseas news sources:
1) Unnamed 14-year-old girl marries unnamed 17-year-old boy in a secret wedding, surrounding by their friends, who become the first-ever group of teenage friends to actually keep their mouths shut.
2) The girl and boy have sex and do other things that later prove to the court that their marriage complied with Jewish law. (We were a bit surprised to learn that marriage might not count even after that whole "I now pronounce you man and wife, you may stomp on the wine glass now" part. (Kidding.)
3) The bride informs her parents of her new official status and claims to want to move in with her husband. Duh. The parents flip the lech out, and order her to obtain a religious divorce.
4) The girl does the noble thing that proves her love is the genuine article by refusing to go along with the divorce proceedings. "Wait, did you say the groom's family is going to bribe me with ten thousand in cold, hard currency to go through with the annulment? Well, bring it on then!"
5) Although the above "quote" is a fabrication, the unnamed bride did indeed obtain a divorce. Unfortunately, there was no public response from the groom, who was last seen plotting his elopement; unfortunately for the authorities, he will be hard to spot because he is described as "wearing black pants, black shoes, a black jacket, a white shirt, a black hat, and a beard."
According to a BBC report, however, they will not be allowed to marry anyone named Cohen, as if she cares:
One consequence of this is that - if she follows Jewish religious law - she will not be able to marry anyone with the name of Cohen, who are traditionally the Jewish priestly caste.
Assuming the dude's name isn't Cohen, do you think any of this is going to stop these two lovebirds?
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