Liz Hurley and new husband Arun Nayar may face jail-time over breaches of Hindu custom perpetrated at their infamously lavish, magazine-financed Indian wedding last month. Among the infractions allegedly committed by the newlyweds:
- Liz failed to remove her shoes before the ceremony.
- Liz and Arun both partook of alcohol.
- Liz showed too much of her body.
- Liz and Arun had their picture taken kissing.
No shit - they could get three years in the slammer for this stuff. And what's more, it appears Arun's very own father Vinod, a devout Hindu, who allegedly has never even met Liz, is willing to testify against the couple. But what makes it really weird is the further accusation leveled against Liz and Arun by prosecuting attorney H.M. Saraswat - that the couple were somehow using the Hindu ceremony as a means of spreading Christianity. Saraswat's claim has something to do with the fact that the two were married in England in a Christian ceremony a week before the Indian one. Here's what Saraswat said:
This is the first case in India where a couple already married has gone through another marriage. ... The couple has been, through their act, trying to canvass for the spread of Christianity and utilising the Hindu marriage they have hurt the people's sentiments.
Sorry - I guess I just don't get Indian people. They eat really spicy food, think cows are gods, and make dumb movies where people sing and dance and yank women around by the hair. Yeah, really civilized group of folks here. Chucking someone in the slammer for three years for not taking their shoes off - how enlightened. Dang, no wonder the English got the hell out of there.
(Before anyone attacks me for saying bad things about India, just remember - I'm only writing things in a blog; this Saraswat guy is actually trying to throw people in jail for kissing and not taking their shoes off. I don't care about religious custom or anything - that shit is just crazy. So, maybe, before you level your outrage at me, you should think about it for a second, and realize that all that energy could be directed more constructively against the people who do the real harm in this world - namely, religious fundamentalists and overly-ambitious lawyers.)
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