MARRIAGE UPDATE - AT 1:30 P.M. ET:  From London's Daily Mail:

A Saudi Arabian man has set a new legal precedent by divorcing his wife by text message.

The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing his wife they were no longer married.

In Saudi Arabia a man can divorce his wife simply by saying 'I divorce you' three times.

However this is the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message.

The kingdom practices a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges.

The unnamed man followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.

COMMENT:  And our president bowed down deeply to this man's king. 

But, after all, who are we to question another culture?  Why, that would be cultural imperialism, insensitivity.  It would be BUSH. 

No, it would be our right and responsibility as civilized human beings, living in the 21st century.  This is another disgraceful example of what our president genuflected to when meeting the Saudi king last week.  And this is a mild example.

Don't expect much from American "women's" organizations on this.  They have become what they claim to hate most - meek followers, beholden to a leftist party line that someone sets for them.

April 9, 2009