Posted on 09/09/2015 8:34:58 PM PDT by GailA
Have you ever spent any time around 12 to 14 year old girls? They are hardly the type of people you want to spend allot of time with. Lots of giggles and nonsense.
Just remember, 2 wives means 2 mothers-in-law....Think about it.
I’m gonna wait for other FRers to respond to that!
ha!
I can’t imagine!
I’d go nutso...lol
The Master Ovary takes charge!
In many places in the US, it was as low as 10 well into the second half of the 19th century. Delaware was the lowest, at 7.
If I recall correctly, it was even lower in some states in the 18th century.
I wrote a paper on it once, and was shocked beyond belief. It began changing with Napoleonic Law, iirc, which is why it was raised in Europe before here.
https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/24
One my my grandmothers married at 13, had my father 10 or 11 months later, and by the time she was 20 had four children.
With a bit of luck, it could work as well as it does in, oh, Saudi Arabia.
Well, then neither can a person who has been found to be incompetent to care for themselves. So people who say consent is required would have to approve of county clerks denying the mentally retarded or people with dementia the right to marry each other, anyone else, or as many people who they love even if they are gay, interacial, dwarf and bipolar, which would make it mandatory for county clerks to be bigoted and also compel them to violate the Americans with disabilities Act.
Or something like that.
I can't wait for the confusion that a child custody case brought by a Cherokee traditionalist is heard and the argument is made that a brother of a deceased mother should be awarded custody of the mother and father's children because in Cherokee custom the children were not raised by the father but by the brother of the mother. If the definition of marriage is now wide open in the law then so must be the definition of family and in some families then the rights of the uncle exceed the rights of the biological father ...
And speaking of marriage, there's the muslim "marriage for a day"... are clerks now obligated to issue certificates to the same person every twenty four hours when he changes spouses after a quickie divoces?
In the case of polygamists then will the clerks have to issue one marriage license and let everyone have a copy or does a separate license have to be issued for each person in "the" relationship? And what if each of the hundred spouses lives in a separate county- do we then need multiple licenses issued in each county?
And it will be quite entertaining when a polygamist in a divorce where both parents are polygamists with multiple spouses is forced to pay support for all of the people and children involved...could be hundreds of people. Imagine what the calendar would look like when trying to figure out visitation rights now that marriage means anything anyone wants it to mean.
Isn't judicial activism fun?
If dairy goats could be found to consent to marriage to a human, the question is, who issues the marriage license - the county, the farm bureau, or the US FDA, or the Dept of Agriculture?
Gee....what a lovely couple! Monica looks sooooo happy.
And double the sets of kids. Now who is going to do all that work to feed, cloth, ins, education, and all the things kids need. Since I raised 3 I know how much that cost. And they still come back to Mom when they get in financial hot water for medical. Youngest just txt I think I just re-fractured my foot. Which means a visit to the ER Ortho Clinic after 4 and me coughing up his co-pay. He was off work several weeks the first time.
WE will get stuck with paying for the kids produced by Polygamy. They will be like the Duggers 20 kids.
That was a different article..Townhall or FR I think. The US will be next, as we follow what Europe does.
USSC cannot make law, they can just interrupt it. They really messed up with this one. Opened the flood gate for every crack pot that thinks they can marry anyone or thing.
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