Word Salad II

mood: amused

My old Star Trek novel editor, John Ordover, is getting a lot of attention over the hoax website he created, MarryOurDaughter.com. (Despite the fact that he told the New York Times that it was a hoax way back on September 11th.)  His intention was to publicize the bizarre disparity among US states of laws regarding what constitutes marriageable age, that age's relationship to the age of consent, and the role of parents in their (minor) children's marriages. (An example: in Texas, "...kids as young as 14 need parental permission to get married – unless, the law says, they have already been married before."  ...Ye gods.)

What I'm trying to work out at the moment is how anyone who got so far into the website as to read the testimonials could possibly have still thought it was real.

Looks like a lot of people didn't make it that far, though...  (See the various news stories on Google for details on the numerous cries of outrage.)