Mom and Dad haven’t forced them to marry, since there is no legal marriage. They’ve “forced” their teen daughters into being raped by creeps. Can parents give consent to statutory rape?
Exactly. Well put.
This is even precisely where these cults get way off-base with the Bible. They use examples like Abram (Gen. 16). The problem is that Abram (after sleeping with "the help"), Hagar ("the help" herself), Abram's wife, Moses, the Angel of the Lord, and the Apostle Paul all reference "the help" after she slept with Abram as exactly that--a "slave."
Certainly, in the Genesis era there were no legal "consentual rights" issues...but it's the same scenario. Can a slave "consent" to marry & sleep with the slave's mistress [female word for "master"] if turned over to the mistress' husband by the wife to act as a surrogate in her place?
A contemporary scenario would be...if a pimp tells a sex-trafficked victim to "marry" someone and sleep with him, is that really "consentual" even for an adult woman? (I mean would the defenders of this cult really have the gall to claim that slaves can say "no" to their masters? I don't think so)