You might not know it but some sick groomers insist on keeping child marriage legal in the USA
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I am not pretending that there is no child marriage. When did I ever pretend that there was no child marriage? What child marriage there is, is likely Mohammedians or maybe fundamentalist Mormons or some such, which in both cases are young people being taken advantage of.
Why are you looking for a fight when I'm 99% in agreement with you? For the 1%, all I'm saying is that an 18 year old, historically speaking, was able to marry a 17 year old and that was a good thing. But these days, well, they can wait until both are 18.
So you agree that there is child marriage in the US and that right-wingers are preventing the abolishment?
For all that is holy, why do you insist on saying that I'm saying things that I'm not saying?
I said that the laws should make it 18 in our modern context, that historically people of the same age marrying each other was not a bad thing, and that people shouldn't slut it up in their youth.
I have no idea what's going on legislatively. I have zero idea, in the state legislatures where this stuff is decided on, what there are in the way of lobbying groups or religious groups or special interest groups which are telling state legislators to take, or not take, action on any laws for, or against child marriage. The problem, such as it is, is entirely outside the scope of what I pay attention to in my daily life.
The age of consent laws are lower hanging fruit when you want to deal with grooming and pedos.