Grood.com

A man has caused an uproar in a southwestern Oklahoma town by advertising in an unusual manner that he’d like to pay for a virgin to be his bride. A sign that 45-year-old Michael Thelemann posted in his yard Sunday said that he’ll pay $1,000 for a virgin bride between the ages of 12 and 24.

“I feel like I’m living down the street from a pedophile,” said neighbor Christy Sternadel. “We want him out of this neighborhood. Who asks for a 12-year-old virgin bride?”

Thelemann, who was divorced in 1989, said he did not understand the complaints. He said his grandmother married “a much older man” at age 14.

“I’m just somebody who is getting up there in years, and I’m looking for a born-again, God-fearing virgin between the ages of 12 and 24 who can bear me children,” said Thelemann. “What’s the problem? I just think I have some wicked neighbors.”

The first sign was stolen, so Thelemann put up another sign Wednesday that didn’t include the minor ages. The new sign also noted he’s not interested in a “pig-worshipping, heathen, white-supremacist wife.”

Just because your grandmother did something doesn’t make it all right. My grandmother probably used leeches to cure a headache, but you don’t see me diving headfirst into a shallow pond or Slip ‘N Sliding through a rain forest.