West Virginia: Republicans Block Law Banning “Child” Marriage

I never thought I’d live to see the day when conservatives somewhere actually manage to conserve something.

AP:

A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.

The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates.

The vote came shortly after the bill’s main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children.


Kayla Young

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

Wait, 16-year-old “children” can’t marry in other states?

What?

Really? 

“For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote.

In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day.

Some of the bill’s opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia.

Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

The bill would have established that 18 is the age of consent and removed the ability of a minor to obtain consent through their parents, legal guardians, or by court petition. Existing legal marriages, including those done in other states, would have been unaffected.


Reminder: girls younger than 16 are getting their tits chopped off regularly, and it’s perfectly legal

According to the nonprofit group Unchained At Last, which seeks to end forced and child marriage, seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018. Supporters of such legislation say it reduces domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and improves the lives of teens.

If women had their way, they would make the marriage age 45. They would also force rich, handsome men to marry 45-year-old women.

When you give women any control over anything, they do nothing but max out their sexual advantages, because that’s all they have. Women in their 20s and 30s don’t want to compete with teenage girls who might actually be innocent enough to get married and actually act normal.

There is nothing more worthless than a used-up old whore who is not a virgin and who is old. They are jaded and nasty. They are also never going to be as attractive as nubile teenagers.

You can divorce from a marriage, but puberty blockers and chopping off body parts is forever