Wyoming Limiting Child Marriage Sparks Republican Outrage
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Because the want to keep child marriage.
You do know that in some states in the US it is still legal for adults to marry and have sex with children?
If the bill is proposing this where one person is much older (ie more than a few years apart) then I am not going to defend it in fact quite the opposite. Is that what it states? Because I suspect this is instead a specific statute addressing the case where both people are essentially minors.
https://www.findlaw.com/state/wyoming-law/wyoming-marriage-age-requirements-laws.html
Until this law, there was no minimum age or minimum age difference if a judge gave approval.
Republicans have opposed all attempts to change that until now.