Ohio fails to pass bill ending child marriage
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Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition

Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition

Senate Bill 341 would have ended a loophole letting 17-year-olds marry legal adults up to four years older than them with court approval and seemed bound for passage. No one testified against it during its five public readings, and it had the support of youth advocates and the Catholic church.

The legislation had a pair of bipartisan sponsors, and it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously on Wednesday, the last full day before the summer recess began. Despite the initial momentum in the Senate, the bill never passed there in a full floor vote, and it had yet to be introduced in the House.

Still, campaigners and lawmakers said it was “mind-boggling” that the bill has not progressed. “It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag…it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,” Fraidy Reiss, founder of the non-profit Unchained At Last, which campaigns against child marriage, told the Ohio Capital Journal.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    While I don’t normally turn to religious institutions, I’ll use this one because I think it bolsters my position:

    https://www.themonastery.org/marriage-laws/california

    1. EIGHTEEN. One and an eight, you fucking liar (or dumbass). Maybe you’re like all the people from Georgia and Texas (license plates at a hotel) visiting my state (California) despite all of us being satanists who rig elections. Get the fuck out of here. Are you stupid or are you a liar?
    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      From the link you yourself posted: "In California, the law says only adults 18 years of age or older can marry, though there are exceptions made for minors under 18 with parental consent who also obtain a court order. "

      I’ve lived in CA likely longer than you have been alive. I also seem to have much better reading comprehension. Legal marrying age has been a big issue for a long time now, with the ACLU fighting to KEEP the laws intact. You might love CA and think it can do no wrong, but wait till you find out that not only can kids under 18 get married as long as a judge agrees, but those same kids cannot legally get divorced. How fucked up is that?

      You should take a breath, learn that all places have weird, fucked up laws, and take this as a lesson that you aren’t as smart as you think you are.