(August 7, 2015 at 9:06 am)Ace Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 5:14 am)robvalue Wrote: Still waiting on all these child marriages that were apparently inevitable should this decision be made...
Actual there is legal precedent of young ages and arranged marriages in this country.
Example Edgar Allan Poe wife was 13 when they marred. In fact it was very common for girls to get married at the age of 12 or 13. In arranged marriages it is very common to have kids as you as 7 or 4 set to marry.
It will be amazingly simple to legalize it, all that needs to be done is the removal of the age restriction.
Since age restriction is decided by the states, not federal, as to when someone can enter into contracts/agreements it will be easy.
Right new Texas allow kids to marry at 14 (with parents connect)
Now we can argue "will it is teen ages so that is OK". NO, there are many studied and scientific evident that these teens are still very young with a child like mentality. For example the completion of a persons brain development is estimated at around age 25.
Also, there will always be someone who will push for the number's to go just little more lower. "whats the difference between 13 to 12? Whats the difference between 12 and 11? Whats the difference between 11 and 10? And so on.
Yeah...and why do you think that isn't the case any more? Hmmm?
It's because we set the age of marital/sexual consent as being older than that once science could objectively show that people below a certain age are usually harmed by those kinds of relationships. That shit used to be legal, and now there are laws against it. That means that "legal precedence" could never be responsible for the re-legalization of child marriage. Legislation of some kind would be required.
Furthermore, virtually every society that condones/has condoned child marriage has been religious. Why are homosexuals and atheists being accused of sliding us down a slope toward child marriage when religious people have always been more prone toward that kind of exploitation? That's sort of like the kettle calling the bathtub "black."
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
