Republicans in TN are trying to push a law that would result in NO AGE LIMIT for marriage???

[70sEraVet]

"A GOP-backed bill in Tennessee would eliminate any age requirements for marriage, a move that critics are calling hypocritical amid baseless Republican accusations that the LGBTQ+ community is attempting "groom" and "sexualize" school children.

H.B. 233 gives Tennesseans "an alternative form of marriage" between individuals who have a "conscientious objection to the current pathway," according to state Rep. Tom Leatherwood, the bill's Republican sponsor.

As WKRN ​​reported, the GOP bill, first introduced in January, establishes a common-law marriage between "one man" and "one woman" but omits any age requirements for the union, an omission that Democrats have blasted."

https://www.salon.com

Unbelievable. And I honestly don't understand the 'reasoning' behind this bill -- so that people can have an alternative method of marrying, as a protest against same-sex marriage???

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The christofascists don't really hate Muslims. They are too similar. They are jealous.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. That Leatherwood creep has five daughters. I wonder how he'd feel about them marrying

some goober at age 12?

[Srkdqltr]

3. How is this a protest against same sex marriage?

These people are stupid. And they are pandering to the really stupid.

[greymattermom]

4. My response

Let them marry fetuses.

[greymattermom]

5. I'm thankful for Tennessee

for keeping the DU South bashing north of me (Georgia).

[Chainfire]

8. You have Tennessee on the North, and Florida to the South and the British to the East..

I think that you may be surrounded.

[Chainfire]

6. Sounds like the state will become a pedophile paradise.

What the hell are those lawmakers thinking?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. I don't care if people are over 60 or 70 or 80, they should be allowed to get married!

[niyad]

10. Agreed. A friend's mother married at 85. . .I was so happy for her.

[niyad]

9. Back in the '60's, if I remember correctly, there was a guy in TN trying to get

the age limit for marriage down to 12, because of the child he wanted to marry. Now, I will admit that, in my early teens, I was a bit sheltered and clueless. But, myy first thought when I read the story was, "what a sick person. And where are this child's parents? What is WRONG with these people?" I had no idea then how widespread this is.

So today, I want to say, "F*** all those perverts".

[LakeArenal]

11. Like Cletus?

[kimbutgar]

12. The ads against the GOP in the state are easy to write

Like the Tailban the GOP wants your daughter married off at early ages. Show small girls dressed as child brides.

I hope the blowback is explosive against the Tennessee GOP.

[Sneederbunk]

13. They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain.

[MuseRider]

15. I knew I knew that song

but I had to look it up. It is creepy as hell. I do not know where I heard it or when but the moment I read those 2 words I got creeped out.

Yup, Daddy protects his little girl all up there by themselves just the 2 of them, protects her from the creepy men that want to come and take her away. Choice for her? You gotta be kidding, silly little dopey headed girl. Daddy takes care of all then hands her off to someone he chooses to "take care" of her.

CREEPY!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

14. Whatever they accuse, they do.

Here’s your goddamn pedophiles, ‘pukes!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. I thought that age did not matter in you are marrying a relative in Tennessee

[ITower68]

17. My son calls these people PedoCons

This Group Of Pedophiles masquerading as a political party keep turning out to prey on children. Ohio is trying to lower marriage age to zero too. They lie and say Democrats and Gay People are grooming children, meanwhile they are the ones passing sickening laws like this. All projection.