Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans

[RandySF]

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Gavin Newsom
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Defending child marriages is now on the list of @GOP priorities.

[Scrivener7]

1. Because of course it does.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Will these same GOP Assholes resist TSF's goal to BAN all pornography from the land?

Defending child marriage is a pornography all of its own.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. This is nothng new

Republicans fight child marriage bans all the time. The Far Right evangelical support they have demands it as girls are treated as property in some religious sects that hav a lot of influence over the GOP.

[DBoon]

4. here is the original article

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288424893.html

Some choice excerpts:

“It’s on the…going 16 to 18,” Murphy, who supports the bill, said of the opposition. “There’s just enough members in that committee that don’t think that’s a good idea.” One of those lawmakers is Rep. Dean Van Schoiack, a Savannah Republican and vice chair of the committee. Van Schoiack said in an interview that he knows people who got married as minors, including a woman at roughly age 17. The couple, he said, is “still madly in love with each other.” “Why is the government getting involved in people’s lives like this?” Van Schoiak said. “What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or 17 years old, their parents say, you know, ‘you guys love each other, go ahead and get married, you have my permission.’ Why would we stop that?”

Rehder, who is running for lieutenant governor, pushed back in an interview. “The government does tell people when they can get married because we do have an age limit right now,” she said. “The fact that he feels that it’s okay for a parent to make a decision for a child, that is a lifetime decision, is offensive.” The legislation is personal for Rehder, who was married at age 15 to her 21-year-old boyfriend in 1984. A year earlier, her sister, at age 16, married her 39-year-old drug dealer, she has said. “As a child that did get married,” she said, “I would say I have a lot more insight to this issue than what he does.”

Article also quotes another Republican who says if teenager don't have the option of marriage, they will have an abortion instead.

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5. Does any office keep stats on how many underage girls are married to older men?

My guess is, no.

[RandySF]

6. County mariage licenses.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Yes. But does anyone compile a history?

[RandySF]

8. Not that I'm aware of.

Sounds like an interesting project.

[DBoon]

9. Sounds like something the state legislature should have already done

Before considering this bill.

Basic research.