To elaborate: There's also a fundamental right to self-determination, but parents can control their kids until age 18. There's a fundamental right to freedom of religion, but kids can be forced by court order (say, in a divorce) to attend a particular parent's church until age 18 or so. The rules are simply different for minors; a lot of things that are fundamental rights - and thus invoke strict scrutiny - are given, in practice, intermediate scrutiny when applied to minors. You can't purchase a handgun in most places until you're 21. You can't concealed carry in most places until 18 or 21. Generally, age trumps, or at least diminishes, fundamental rights.
TL;DR: It's nonsense to claim that a ruling in favor of gay marriage would also legalize child marriage. Gay people can consent to marriage because, legally, they have the capacity to do so.
Expanding what you are legally allowed to consent to is not equivalent to expanding the capacity to consent.
TL;DR: It's nonsense to claim that a ruling in favor of gay marriage would also legalize child marriage. Gay people can consent to marriage because, legally, they have the capacity to do so.
Expanding what you are legally allowed to consent to is not equivalent to expanding the capacity to consent.
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