November 24, 2008
We’d Like to Hear Yes On 8’s Thoughts About This Most Traditional Marriage
No, we’re not being sarcastic at all. “Traditional marriage” doesn’t get any more “traditional” than this:
Second Victim Dies After
New Jersey Church ShootingA second person has died after a shooting in a New Jersey church on Sunday morning, but the man suspected of being the gunman had not been found, the authorities said on Monday.
The suspect, Joseph Pallipurath, 27, of Sacramento, drove cross-country in a green Jeep to confront his estranged wife, Reshma James, 24, who had sought refuge with relatives in New Jersey, said Detective Capt. Robert Rowan of the Clifton, N.J., police. Mr. Pallipurath barged into St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church just before noon and confronted his wife in the vestibule, the authorities said.
When she refused to leave with him, he shot her, one of her relatives and another man in their heads with a silver handgun, the police said. …
The police and friends and family of the victims said the shooting was the culmination of an arranged marriage that had quickly turned stormy. The couple were married a year ago in India, where Ms. James, a registered nurse, grew up. She joined Mr. Pallipurath, an American, in Sacramento in January…
What say you, “defenders” of “traditional marriage”? Or are you just going to dismiss a time-honored marriage “tradition” of a branch of Christianity more genuinely and literally Judeo-Christian than (and which pre-dates) your particular flavor of “Christianity”?
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