Well, of course, you don't need TOO many Virgin Princesses. Some cultures you gotta come up with a dowry (...pay the groom). In this country it is "traditional" that the bride's family pays for the wedding.

A whole lot of our anti-abortion, pro-ignorance and abstinence, adultress-stonage & fag-burnage favoring activists are some form of fundamentalist or evangelical Christian. There is a peculiar alliance with the loonier sort of Catholics. So many a la carte Catholics in this country, also.