Had she been claiming that she was a priestess of the almighty pink unicorn, and it had told her the dress was sprinkled with bad fairy dust, she'd have been put in a rubber cell immediately. Instead she proclaimed that she was a minister, and the dress was cursed by witchcraft, and she just get to pay for the dress (but not the even more irreplaceable wedding video).
I fail to see the difference in the two claims, why should "established" religion receive any leniency?
In my part of the (northern) world in the 50s and 60s when I grew up, there were lots of religious people about, but I swear this kind of goofy stuff would have drawn a laugh even from us kids. Can anybody here from the riper parts of the South tell me if this kind of thing has always been common, or is this dumbing down we all hear about taking hold?
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