A Salt Lake City man was mortified to learn his father had placed a full-page advertisement in a north Idaho newspaper seeking candidates to be his wife.

"My father did this without my consent," Baron Brooks, 48, told the Spokesman-Review newspaper. "I can't even describe to you how embarrassing and ridiculous this is."

Despite being upset by his father's actions, Brooks is letting his 78-year-old father interview women on Saturday at The Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) Resort.

The $900 ad appeared in the Saturday edition of the Coeur d'Alene Press and features a framed portrait of Brooks.

The ad states that Baron is looking "for a wife who is ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible." It also lists the attributes a prospective bride must have including being politically conservative, willing to move to Salt Lake City and willing to stay at home.

The father apparently placed the ad in that newspaper because he had recently vacationed in Coeur d'Alene and liked the town's conservative politics, Brooks said.

"He knew I'm a political conservative, OK?" Brooks, who is Jewish, said. "And most Jewish girls are quite liberal, and that doesn't work for me. You probably are going to get more like a Midwest-type values in Idaho - somebody's who more right of center than you would, say, in Los Angeles."

Brooks describes his father as being "nuts," "neurotic," "passive-aggressive" and "without boundaries."

After all of that, though, Brooks said the interviews are "worth a shot. Can't hurt."