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Girls Can Marry at 15, Colo. Court Finds
breitbart.com ^ | June 15, 2006 | John Sarche, AP

Posted on 06/15/2006 12:12:25 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

DENVER

A 15-year-old girl can enter into a common-law marriage in Colorado, and younger girls and boys possibly can, too, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

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I did a search.
1 posted on 06/15/2006 12:12:29 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
I did a search.

So, did you find any? :-)

2 posted on 06/15/2006 12:13:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

When I got married in 1976, the State of Utah recognized female marriages at 13 years old. Males had to be 16. Both required parental consent and a blood test.


3 posted on 06/15/2006 12:14:09 PM PDT by colorcountry (Life isn't fair, it isn't unfair either. It just "is.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Where did you search? There are lots of folks out there looking for 15-year-old girls. I think they're called perverts.

They'd be interested in your search, I'm sure...assuming that you found some.


4 posted on 06/15/2006 12:14:45 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Let me get this straight, okay, the guy is 38 and his "bride" is 15?????

Damn.


5 posted on 06/15/2006 12:14:57 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: colorcountry

....and I found out that after my marriage, my husband was STILL my cousin! badaboom!


6 posted on 06/15/2006 12:15:20 PM PDT by colorcountry (Life isn't fair, it isn't unfair either. It just "is.")
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To: MineralMan

"There are lots of folks out there looking for 15-year-old girls. I think they're called perverts. "

I guess everyone outside the USA is a pervert then, pretty common for people in there teens to get married outside the USA...


7 posted on 06/15/2006 12:17:07 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
"It appears that Colorado has adopted the common-law age of consent for marriage as 14 for a male and 12 for a female, which existed under English common law," the ruling said. "Nevertheless, we need only hold here that a 15-year-old female may enter into a valid common-law marriage."
8 posted on 06/15/2006 12:17:09 PM PDT by Thrusher ("...there is no peace without victory.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
I did a search.

MySpace.com?

9 posted on 06/15/2006 12:17:20 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: colorcountry
When I got married in 1976, the State of Utah recognized female marriages at 13 years

So let me guess... Now you're 42 years old and a great-great grandmother... :)

10 posted on 06/15/2006 12:18:34 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Thrusher

So, not only can a little girl get married to an old lecher, he doesn't even have to really marry her.

Want to bet that the pervert population will be getting much higher in Colorado? What a stupid judge.


11 posted on 06/15/2006 12:19:10 PM PDT by bordergal
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To: MineralMan

I don't think someone who is interested in 15 year old is necessarily a pervert. There are plenty of 15 to 17 year olds who look like they are in their mid 20s. Now for someone who is around 40 to actually have relations with someone that young, it might more immature than perverted since other than reproduction I cannot see what they would have in common.


12 posted on 06/15/2006 12:19:21 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: AmericaUnited

Yeeeeh! Haaaaw! Granny grab a the shotgun. Junior fire up the banjos!


13 posted on 06/15/2006 12:20:45 PM PDT by oncebitten
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To: Thrusher
"It appears that Colorado has adopted the common-law age of consent for marriage as 14 for a male and 12 for a female, which existed under English common law," the ruling said. "Nevertheless, we need only hold here that a 15-year-old female may enter into a valid common-law marriage."

Ok, I thought a common-law marriage was where a couple lived together for a period of time and then were considered husband and wife because of their time together.
IF this is so, how can this happen if the age of consent is 16?
14 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:04 PM PDT by GrandEagle
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Let me get this straight, okay, the guy is 38 and his "bride" is 15?????

Damn.

That's a bigger age difference than Mary Kay LeTourneau and her student. And that made national news...

15 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:21 PM PDT by detroitdarien
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> Girls Can Marry at 15
>>I did a search

I bet you found more
old FBI agents than
fifteen year old girls . . .

16 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:34 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: MD_Willington_1976

Must be a school teacher


17 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:42 PM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: AmericaUnited
Now you're 42 years old and a great-great grandmother

LOL...I didn't say I was 13 when I got married....but you're pretty close anyway. I am still in my 40's and I could be a great-grandmother within 5 years.

18 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:45 PM PDT by colorcountry (Life isn't fair, it isn't unfair either. It just "is.")
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To: MD_Willington_1976
"I guess everyone outside the USA is a pervert then, pretty common for people in there teens to get married outside the USA"

....uh...in many countries, young people are actually REQUIRED to grow up sooner....more vigorous academics with less time off, taking care of younger brothers and sisters, learning to cook, clean, sew, farm, fix cars and trucks and all in all, add substantially to the family welfare......

now Western kids might physically grow sooner, but their mental and social and emotional growth lags behind most of the world IMO.....

but go after that 15 yro little girl....remember, if its fair for the heteros its fair for the homos as well....

I know the thought of the lesbians and gays going after the 15 and 16 yro or younger is very exciting to them.....

19 posted on 06/15/2006 12:22:47 PM PDT by cherry (.)
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To: Perdogg
Let me get this straight, okay, the guy is 38 and his "bride" is 15?????

Probably related too... Eeewwww!

20 posted on 06/15/2006 12:24:06 PM PDT by b4its2late (Monstra mihi pecuniam!)
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