Degenerates want to stop bill to end child marriages
(www.newsweek.com)
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If this passes, the age of legal marriage will be higher than the age of consent in Missouri. So, fornication is ok but marriage isn't? Maybe they didn't think that one through. Also, current law there already bans most child marriage, but you have to scroll down a while in the article to see that:
So you are fine with children marrying adults?
It's always been permissible for teenage girls to marry with parental permission. Doesn't mean that should be the norm, but some girls are ready before others and better they seek marriage than what they do now (fornication, also often with legal adults).
So you support children marrying adults?
TIL some people make special exceptions to protecting children from sexual abuse when it suits them. Fucking chilling man
So you're fine with 17 year olds fucking 80 year olds, since that would still be legal under that law? Or are you going to stop trying to put words in my mouth?
My point was this is dishonest journalism, the writers know that most people reading, apparently including you, won't read far enough to get to the part I quoted and will come away from this article thinking that child marriage in general is legal without restrictions there, when in reality it's a small window of people five or less years apart that are allowed to marry each other.
Which if you do the math, the current law still meets the standard of half your age plus seven in every case except the absolute edges of that window.