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Ohio will continue to allow child marriage after push to end practice fails in legislature. Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition (www.the-independent.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

project 2025 plans to undo child marriage laws.

I'm pretty familiar with Project 2025, but I don't recall that. The actual Project 2025 manifesto, 🤢 Mandate for Leadership 🤮 mentions marriage in a number of ways, including same-sex and even interracial marriage, but there's nothing in it about child marriage at all that I know of or can find, just a lot of self-righteous hyperbole about cis-het marriage and the family unit being the root of all good, blah blah blah.

I just checked it again to be sure, and yeah, marriage is not ever mentioned adjacent to anything regarding the age of the participants.

I'm not trying to challenge you, they're guilty of almost everything they've ever been accused of and far more that's even worse, but can you tell me where you got that from? Because if they're going to start this too I'd like to know more about it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ah I think I'm misremembering where I got that from. Maybe heritage foundation. I tried googling but I can't find the source. I watched some of their "training" videos.

    I'm sure I saw something where there was a plan to lower age of marriage for girls. Maybe it was just from a few nutty conservatives. But I was pretty sure there was something in there about trying to get girls to have babies while still teenagers. And being religious, the girls need to be wed.

    Sorry I can't find any credible source so I can only assume I'm mixed up or I heard it from an un-credible source and can't remember.

    Only thing I found was a few stories on nutty conservatives.

    https://www.newsweek.com/jess-edwards-teen-child-marriage-opposed-republican-ripe-fertile-age-1897512

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missouri-mike-moon-defends-child-marriage_n_64372e01e4b0ac40918962ff

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    No, that's great. It's the difference between actual policy initiative, which will get real tax dollars and resources thrown behind it, and just something the average MAGA christofascists want, which was never a big secret. This is a relief. Thank you for looking, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer.

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