So in republican-held Tennessee you can soon marry children or babies, but you are still limited to just one child/baby at a time.
This is what republican state politicians who draw a salary from public funds spend their time on.
2022
Alright, is this site just full of bots now? Are we even trying?
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I wonder if it passed.
I understand I have the Internet at my disposal, but I’m almost done pooping so I guess I’ll never know…
I’m not a bot, i just like to mess around with this ID :)
The child rape party wants to legalize child rape? Of course they do. But not just child rape, the child has to be married to the rapist, so they can be raped over, and over, and over again by their rapist for years, and years.
They get a few nazi police around, and they finally get bold enough to show their true intentions. No age limit marriage, WTF?!?
This is how they deal with rape in those communities - make the girl marry him. Then all sins are forgiven.
Because for them, molesting children isn’t the problems but molesting children out of marriage
It means the victim can’t leave. Legally. They know that. That’s what they want.
Grand Old Pedophiles
ICK
You’re much younger can’t you see
There is nothing more for you and I
I’m ninety three you’re sixteen
Can’t you see I’m goin’ blind“Going Blind” - Melvins
Gang Of Pedophiles
Time is relative, man. Get it? Relative.
Especially since that article is from Apr 05, 2022.
FWIW, it was not even a bill aimed at removing age limits on marriage, it was creating a new kind of marriage unavailable to same sex couples that didn’t initially include age limits. It was amended to include them before failing anyway.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/03/15/tennessee-child-marriage/72975497007/
Be angry at the attempt to backdoor a gay marriage restriction, but calling this a pedo bill is, by all accounts, misinformation.
Sick bastards in a red run Oblast and their goal is to look like Charles II of Spain.
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How about a set of tires? Fruit? A desk?
Can you marry things?
Because of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, I expect that also effectively eliminates a lower age for other states, as long as someone is willing to establish residency in Tennessee long enough to get married there before moving. Any marriage established in Tennessee must be honored by the other states.
Some US states do permit marriage at a younger age than normal if you get some additional sign-off from parents or a judge or something, IIRC.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States
It looks like California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Mississippi also have no hard minimum, so we already should be at a hard minimum of zero years old, as long as you jump through the other hoops.
California: With parental consent and judicial approval, a person can marry under the age of eighteen but the partners and the minor’s parents have to meet with court officials who must rule out abuse or coercion. There is a 30-day waiting period for minors unless they are seventeen and have graduated high school or one of the partners is pregnant.[47][48]
New Mexico: With parental consent, a person can marry at 16.[71] A 16 or 17 year old teen can marry with the written consent of each living parent of the minor.[72] A person under 16 can marry with judicial approval and parental consent or if pregnant, or by order of a children’s or family division of district court.[49]
Oklahoma: With parental consent, a person can marry at 16. A person under 16 may marry if authorized by the court.[42][43]
Mississippi: With parental consent, males can marry at 17 and females at 15. Boys below 17 and girls below 15 can marry with judicial approval and parental consent.[49][43][66]
I also don’t know whether it’d be constitutional for another state to prohibit sex between someone and their legal spouse. If I had to make a guess, I’d say no, but not sure. Maybe the right to privacy in Lawrence v. Texas applies.
EDIT: At least in Arizona criminal code, to grab the first state using the term I searched for, it looks like being married to someone is a defense against statutory rape charges:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States
The age of consent in Arizona is 18. However, there exist in the legislation defenses to prosecution if the defendant is close-in-age to the minor or a spouse of the minor. Note: these are not close-in-age exceptions but defenses in court. Arizona Revised Statute 13-1405(A)
D. It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to section 13-1404 or 13-1405 that the person was the spouse (legally married AND cohabiting) of the other person at the time of commission of the act …
