Subj : Re: BBS community improve
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed May 29 2024 08:11 am

>> Who tried to make child marriage legal recently?  I know historically people
>> did get married off at very young ages, but I have not seen any push to have
>> that happen here in the US lately.

> Missouri tried to ban child marriage but ran into resistance from house
> republicans.

OK, so they apparently already are legal if they were trying to ban them.

Who is trying to make them legal in places where marriage between the age
of 16-18 isn't *already* legal?

> Seven of the 14 committee members oppose the legislation and disagree with
> raising the state's marriage age, he said. "It's on the.going 16 to 18,"

So it is not ok for a 16-or-17 year old to be married (with parental
consent) but it is ok to expose that "child," and ones even younger, to books
with pornographic images (just so long as they are same-sex images), even
when the parents oppose the idea?

> "Why is the government getting involved in people's lives like this?" Van
> Schoiak said. "What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or
> 17 years old, their parents say, you know, `you guys love each other, go ahead
> and get married, you have my permission.' Why would we stop that?"

So it is only legal with parental consent.  They are not trying to *make it
legal*, it is *already* legal.

By the way, you don't have to pick on a "hick state" for this, either.
California also allows persons under 18 to marry with parental consent,
just like Missouri does.

On the surface, I don't think that is a good idea to allow those < 18 to get
married, but it sounds like they already do.


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