16 in 1970 was totally different than 16 nowadays.....
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Says from somebody who may have something to hide.
Under 18 is under 18.
I think the popularity of this thread at the wee hours of the night reveals the sick underbelly of the humans who claim to be saved...
“Under 18 is under 18.”
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/do-we-know-how-old-mary-was-when-she-had-jesus.html
In this passage of Scripture, we are not told Mary’s age, yet we are told she was a virgin and was pledged to be married to Joseph. During this time in history, Jewish girls would have been betrothed (engaged) to their husbands as early as the age of 12-years-old. Scholars believe Mary would have been somewhere between 12-16 years old when she had Jesus (Ibid.).
Given the biblical account and the Jewish cultural practices in Mary’s day, the most plausible age Mary would have been when she had Jesus was most likely 15 or 16-years-old. It is believed that Mary would have been about 14 years old when Gabriel gave her the news of the Lord being born to her (Ibid.).
Yes it is. And your point?
State laws arbitrarily set the "age of consent" to whatever they like. Hell, in Georgia, they had it at 14 years old as recently as 1995. Now it's 16, for what it's worth. The age of consent is just a bunch of lawmakers deciding on an age and has nothing to do with human nature.
For most of human history, girls were married off as soon as they started menstruating and the boys were just as young when they started taking on wives.
Not saying we should go back to that but to say a willing 16 year old is a "victim" in a consensual sexual encounter is nonsense in my opinion.
Now if this 16-year-old girl was raped or made to have sexual intercourse against her will, that's a totally different situation. But the time for her to come forward would have been back in 1976, or whatever the year was, not nearly 50 years later in what is an obvous money grab.
not everybody that posts here is a Christian, but i do understand that alot of the holy rollers here have a bible in one hand but their dick in the other.
With a side of lube.