This will happenhere if we allow gay marriage. The republicans

[democrat in Tallahassee]

told us so!
Charmed woman marries cobra in India Fri Jun 2, 7:43 AM ET



BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) - A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India's Orissa state, reports said.



Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.

Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Friday.

A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom.


It's on Yahoo news.

[Ms. Toad]

1. And how do we know its a groom

and not another bride???

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Considering what many marriages in India are purported to be like

she's probably doing pretty well for herself. At least she doesn't have to worry about being murdered over her dowry.

[beam me up scottie]

3. What's so bad about that?

Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.

Das, from a lower caste, converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra, the world's largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres.

"I am happy," said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off.

"Bimbala was ill," Bhoi told local OTV channel. "We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake ... she was cured. That made her fall in love."

Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding.

Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

Beats the hell out of marrying a freeper!

[johnaries]

4. "beats the hell out of marrying a freeper" A snake, a dog,

I thought they DID marry freepers!

EDIT: My dog is making me apologize for comparing dogs to freepers. I'm sorry, to dogs everywhere.

[beam me up scottie]

5. No no no!

Animals are awesome!

They're nothing at all like freepers!

Not even cockroaches can compare to them.

bleh

[beam me up scottie]

6. Good doggie!

:D

[xchrom]

7. freepers are tapeworms that suck cat piss.

[BayCityProgressive]

8. Strange...

how do they know the snake consents to the marriage??

[xchrom]

9. the snake or the statue counterpart.

both are strangely silent.

[johnaries]

10. Obviously the snake didn't consent, if he wouldn't even attend. nt