Legalized Pedophilia

[Fool]

I have often read that the legalization of same-sex marriage would open a pandora's box; such as, legalizing pedophilia.

But isn't pedophilia already legal in some states by the allowing of children to marry older adults of the opposite sex?

case in point:

Perspective | Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?

 

[Laika]

[An older version of] Wikipedia's map on Age of Consent laws may be pretty useful here as its is not just the US:

 

[Brickjectivity]

I have often read that the legalization of same-sex marriage would open a pandora's box;

That arises from the superstitious belief that people have no consciences outside of religious training, however pedophilia is legal in some countries. It is a human tendency. Even so, same sex is not really related.

 

[Revoltingest]

I have often read that the legalization of same-sex marriage would open a pandora's box; such as, legalizing pedophilia.

But isn't pedophilia already legal in some states by the allowing of children to marry older adults of the opposite sex?

case in point:

Perspective | Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?

Wa Po demands payment to read the article.
Could you excerpt the relevant info?

I don't think there's much connection between the legal age of marriage & pedaphilia.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I have often read that the legalization of same-sex marriage would open a pandora's box; such as, legalizing pedophilia.

It seems to me that there's greater danger of legalizing pedophilia by granting increased rights to religions.

The Blackmores just got sentenced to human trafficking-related charges stemming from them bringing their 13-year-old daughter into the US to be a child bride for a religious leader:

Bountiful couple sentenced for sending 13-year-old daughter to marry FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

In many places, this sort of thing wouldn't even make the news because it would be legal.

 

[SabahTheLoner]

[An older version of] Wikipedia's map on Age of Consent laws may be pretty useful here as its is not just the US:

It should also be noted that law does not equate to practice. Many families in India marry off their four-year-old daughters to thirty-something-year-old men to ensure they have a husband. Sometimes infants are married off in practice and officially given up by the family by the time the child hits puberty.

There are also marriages for spiritual/superstitious reasons like marrying a girl to a tree in order to lift a curse. (I think the tree marriages are in Southeast Asia)

 

[Rival]

You mean legalise sex with people under whatever age the state considers the age of consent?

Paedophilia is a sexual orientation; it's not like it's legal or illegal.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It seems to me that there's greater danger of legalizing pedophilia by granting increased rights to religions.

^^This! When we look at the map of age of consent, 9-year-olds are not sexually maturing, they have not yet reached puberty, very, very few of them probably are thinking about/desiring sex, and no laws at all? Should any of us be surprised we see this going on where there Prophet himself was married to such a young girl? (Also how we see the "must be married" going on in pretty much the same parts). Or the opposite, and going so old for legal age that there is just no reason to make it 20 years old, or not even 19 or 18.

 

[sun rise]

This is a classic slippery slope fallacy.

 

[suncowiam]

Because two consenting adults is the same as one adult and one child. Obviously...

 

[Fool]

Wa Po demands payment to read the article.
Could you excerpt the relevant info?

I don't think there's much connection between the legal age of marriage & pedaphilia.

sorry, it actually let me read part of the article yesterday but today, like you explained, it wants a fee.


again i'm sorry. i wouldn't have posted the link has i known.

Trump nominee: Same-sex marriage could lead to legalizing pedophilia

i was able to get to the article if I googled it

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...rried/&usg=AFQjCNF_D8peG5DT-jReckvk0-aJ45vxNw

Child marriage is rare in the U.S., though this varies by state

 

[Wirey]

There are also marriages for spiritual/superstitious reasons like marrying a girl to a tree in order to lift a curse. (I think the tree marriages are in Southeast Asia)

Gives all new meaning to "family tree".

 

[DavidFirth]

I have often read that the legalization of same-sex marriage would open a pandora's box; such as, legalizing pedophilia.

But isn't pedophilia already legal in some states by the allowing of children to marry older adults of the opposite sex?

case in point:

Perspective | Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?

I read that originally this was made possible in the case when a young girl got pregnant so she could marry. It would be terrible if a pregnant 12 year old girl was prohibited by law to get married.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

It would be terrible if a pregnant 12 year old girl was prohibited by law to get married.

Why?

 

[Deidre]

Why?

Yea, why?

 

[DavidFirth]

Why?

Yea, why?

If you can't figure it out, never mind.

 

[Deidre]

If you can't figure it out, never mind.

A 12 year old girl shouldn't be getting married and marriage won't help her to somehow make peace with the situation she's in.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I read that originally this was made possible in the case when a young girl got pregnant so she could marry. It would be terrible if a pregnant 12 year old girl was prohibited by law to get married.

A pregnant 12 year old needs an abortion and for whoever knocked her up to be taken to jail for rape, not marriage.

 

[Deidre]

A pregnant 12 year old needs an abortion and for whoever knocked her up to be taken to jail for rape, not marriage.

This x 100

I'm mainly against abortion but in cases of rape. I can't even believe that anyone here would suggest that the girl get married to her rapist!

 

[Jainarayan]

If you can't figure it out, never mind.

Is the girl's name Mary, and is this ancient Judea?