[Grig]

The day the GOV. steps in and keeps a bunch of old men from "taking innocent young women to wife when the other one wears out is the day I get a bit more pro GOV."

So you think the government should pass a law saying that all marriage partners have to have an age difference below some set number even though both of them consent to the marriage? What should that number be IYHO? If you are not going to put that restriction on monogamous marriages, what right is there to put it on plural ones?

But the government didn't come out saying that there had to be some age difference restriction, they didn't care that there was consent by both for the marriage, they outlawed it totaly. If prayer becomes unpopular enough, would the government have the right to ban it too?

[Jael]

So you think the government should pass a law saying that all marriage partners have to have an age difference below some set number even though both of them consent to the marriage? What should that number be IYHO? If you are not going to put that restriction on monogamous marriages, what right is there to put it on plural ones?

A child can not consent to a marriage. I find it very sad that while you Mormons keep saying you no longer believe in men being able to abuse woman and children in plural marriages, you are all defending it here.