Texas law was changed in 2005, raising the minimum legal age of marriage from 14 to 16.
I lifted this post by GovernmentShrinker from another thread, which I think is an excellent comment on this situation:
"There is no age threshold at which rape becomes legal. Consent is not a meaningful term in these communities, where girls grow up with no contact at all with the outside world, and no exposure to the idea that maybe God doesn’t want you to follow your the orders of your “prophet” when he orders you to submit to being raped by the middle aged man he picked out for you. The way it works is the girls are taught that the outside world is a horrible, sinful place, and any acceptance of its ways, or any failure to obey the orders of your prophet or your assigned husband will consign you to hell. Then you get raped and impregnated by the time you’re 13 or 14, and by the time things are bad enough that you start questioning whether you really believe all this crap, you have a baby or two, no clue of how you might support yourself much less your children in the scary sinful outside world. You think about making a run for it, but realize you’d have to abandon your children — you physically have no chance of escaping with them (even escaping by yourself is an iffy proposition). So you stay. What’s that you were saying about consent?"
“Consent is not a meaningful term in these communities...”
There you have it. A woman should be free to give her body to a man of her choosing. Any man who doesn’t understand that, let them feat sheep. Or apple pie, whatever.
The definition of “conquest” is NOT ‘rape.’