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Roy Moore's wild oats (great article)
Americanthinker.com ^ | 11/12/17 | Martin Marcus

Posted on 11/12/2017 3:49:32 AM PST by cotton1706

Recently, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused of dating before he was married. How is this a crime? The females were 14 to 18 years old, and he was 32. Also, he got to "second base" with the 14 year old. Technically, no crime was committed, but people regard his behavior as inappropriate. In 2017, the combination of ages is considered wrong. Was it always wrong? Let us look at some history about appropriate ages.

In modern times, there have been many May-December marriages. Some examples come from President Trump. He married Ivana when he was 31 and she was 28. Later, he married Marla when he was 47 and she was 30. He married Melania when he was 59 and she was 35. The husband gets older, but the bride is always around 30 years old.

The king of robbing the cradle is probably Hugh Hefner. His wives on their wedding days were, in chronological order, 23, 27, and 26.

The biggest contrast in ages is probably when Anna Nicole Smith married J. Howard Marshall. They were 26 and 89.

The youngest bride age in a famous marriage is when the founder of Islam, Muhammad, married Aisha, who was six. They consummated when she was nine. Liberals dare not complain about this arrangement, lest they insult the "religion of peace."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: elections; roymoore
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To: cotton1706

The premise of this “article” is that Moore dated the 14-year old.

Unless I’m mistaken, he has denied even knowing the young woman.

Yes—young woman—not child.

I had higher expectations than this of American Thinker.


21 posted on 11/12/2017 5:28:43 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: cotton1706

Slick Willy (50)
Monica. (20)

The Lewinski.


22 posted on 11/12/2017 5:34:02 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: cotton1706

My grandmother was married at 16, when my grandfather was 27.

In her defense, she was an “old” 16, being the eldest of 13 children and she had already spent years helping to raise many of her younger siblings, in addition to lots of farm and housework.

As time has past, a younger age has meant less mature in many ways that it used to. Conversely, like in my grandmother’s case she was considerably more mature at 16 than are most 16 year old girls today.

In 1979, when Moore was 32, the median age of marriage for women was 22; today it’s 27.


23 posted on 11/12/2017 5:37:16 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wilhelm Tell

“When Clinton was accused of rape, the leftists all said in unison that it was a private matter and how dare we ask about it.”

What the left actually said in unison was: “But that was 21 years ago!”


24 posted on 11/12/2017 5:43:37 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: cotton1706

Strom Thurmond was 44 when he married his first wife, Jean Crouch (1926–1960), in the South Carolina Governor’s mansion on November 7, 1947.[30] In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina. 44 & 21

Thurmond married his second wife, Nancy Janice Moore (born 1946), on December 22, 1968. He was 66 years old and she was 22. She had won Miss South Carolina in 1965.

At age 68 in 1971, Thurmond fathered the first of four children with Nancy, who was then 25.

Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.


25 posted on 11/12/2017 5:57:31 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: cotton1706

This is just as real as the Russian dossier.


26 posted on 11/12/2017 5:57:31 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: cotton1706

I was stationed in Alabama from 1973 to 1976, and at that time it was legal for a girl to marry at 13 with parental permission, and 16 without permission. I knew several locals and even GI’s who were in their 20’s who were married to 13, 14 and 15 year old girls.


27 posted on 11/12/2017 6:01:51 AM PST by euram (4)
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To: iowamark

Don’t forget Jerry Lee Lewis’ 13 year old bride...and the fact that the marriageable age for girls in many Southern states was only raised from 14 in the last couple of decades. Southerners like to be married, and girls married very young - so young that if a man waited, the older ones were all “took” by then and the marriageable pool was generally younger girls.

It sounds as if Moore was dating, looking for a wife, not trying to bed children (as it’s being made to sound now). As for the supposed 14 year old, who says she “thinks that at some point she told him” that she was 14 - forget her. If she ever met him at all, she never told him her real age - and in the early photo that has been published, she could easily be 17 or older (a baby slut, in other words).


28 posted on 11/12/2017 6:02:08 AM PST by livius
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To: cotton1706
Here is a pic of Moore's accuser working for the Hillary campaign

Roy Moore’s accusers is Deborah Wesson Gibson who just so happened to work on the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not only that but Wesson-Gibson is already pimping Doug Jones (the Democrat in the Alabama special election) on social media.

29 posted on 11/12/2017 6:07:42 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: frnewsjunkie

>>I’m still waiting for a fair justice system that will prosecute crimes of their beloved elite swamp dwellers.<<

Not going to happen until our President gives America a real Attorney General.


30 posted on 11/12/2017 6:11:45 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: cotton1706

We need to make sure we separate the 14 y.o. Corfman from the others. The others were not socially inappropriate, and Corfman appears to be lying.


31 posted on 11/12/2017 6:16:06 AM PST by MortMan (NFL kneelers: A colonoscopy is not supposed to be a self-exam.)
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To: binreadin

Different girl from what I’ve read. The 17 is the Dem. The 14 yo voted for Trump later in life.


32 posted on 11/12/2017 6:17:56 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

>>When the 50 year-old Bill Clinton - President Clinton - had sex with a 20 year-old intern, we were told it was fine and it was none of our business. We were even told it was a wonderful, liberating, empowering thing for a young woman to offer sexual favors to her middle-aged boss! Many feminists were officially okay with it, too! When Clinton was accused of rape, the leftists all said in unison that it was a private matter and how dare we ask about it. Just like before that, they put Ted Kennedy on a moral pedestal. The left has no credibility at all and we need to get rid of these timid, senile GOPe leaders who jump every time some hypocritical leftist says something.<<

You have covered this Democrat-conspired garbage perfectly. Let’s all move on to do whatever each of us can to support Judge Moore and ensure his election.


33 posted on 11/12/2017 6:20:00 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: DoodleDawg

>>So Moore preferred the company of teen-aged girls. Creepy, but not illegal.<<

Creepy? How so? I assume you’re commenting on a disparity of ages, so tell us what the appropriate ages are for dating teenagers of various ages from 13 to 19. And refer please to both female and male adults dating younger teens. Take your time, we’ll all wait.


34 posted on 11/12/2017 6:29:16 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: cotton1706

The big picture... It is more likely that the Dem is a sex perp, even with all the fake news pointing at Moore.


35 posted on 11/12/2017 6:30:46 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Yeah, shouldn’t Snakehead be all over the Sunday morning new shows snarling, “It’s just all about sex, it’s just all about sex, it’s ...”


36 posted on 11/12/2017 6:31:34 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Jim Noble

>>Judge Moore and I are almost contemporaries.<<

Well done, Mr. Noble! I am in the same age bracket as you and the Judge, and you’ve succinctly described how it was back in the day.


37 posted on 11/12/2017 6:35:09 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: livius

Google image Brooke Shields at 12 years old in 1979 as a Calvin Klein model. Or Jodie Foster at 12, for that matter. Girls killed themselves to loon 20.


38 posted on 11/12/2017 6:35:49 AM PST by txhurl
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To: MortMan

>>We need to make sure we separate the 14 y.o. Corfman from the others. The others were not socially inappropriate, and Corfman appears to be lying.<<

Exactly right, and this Corfman woman is known to law enforcement and others who know her as a chronic liar, and thus a perfect criminal accomplice for all Democrats and RINOs!


39 posted on 11/12/2017 6:41:38 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
Yeah, shouldn’t Snakehead be all over the Sunday morning new shows snarling, “It’s just all about sex, it’s just all about sex, it’s ...”

He might be too busy dragging $100 bills through a trailer park.

40 posted on 11/12/2017 7:18:30 AM PST by Inspectorette
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