Release the voting information. Name and shame the people who voted against it.

Things to do in Ohio: leave.

“It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag… it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,”

Yeah, I see the problem right there. * gestures vaguely at legislature full of creepy men who prey on teenage girls *

The douchebag that married my half-sister when she was 15–16* and he was 21–22* was from Ohio, so I'll just register my lack of surprise.

*Ages approximate because I've never been close to that side of my blood.

We need to PROTECT Children from RAPISTS! SEX TRAFFICKERS! UNDERAGED MARRIAGE! NOT having their Genitals Inspected by Strangers!

-Republican Voters LITERALLY!

Ohio 💀

US pedocracy in action.

I'm guessing it is the same elderly white men who are also calling for younger people to be having babies that voted this down.

I don’t mean to make a joke about this but was there no public opposition because they are legally not allowed to vote, and thus aren’t part of the legislation.

At least it's not whatever state(s) allow 12 year olds to marry. Or whatever other horrible shit I read about some old piece of shit advocating last year. Ffs, just let the southern states go. That doesn't geographically include Ohio, but we can make an exception. A lot of midwest states who aren't in the south can go too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140430173729/http://fuckthesouth.com/

While obviously legislation like this should pass to ban child marriages on the books. I just want people to know that this would not do much to stop the practice in the majority of cases.

It is true that it would reduce this abuse to some degree. Or at the very least give the groomed children more time to develop and realize they are being abused. It would be a good step.

However, the majority of these marriage arrangements are already in place in these communities long before they go "on the books". It is usually extremely patriarchal religious communities where women and girls are not only subject to usual patriarchal structures of our society, but to a form of oppression, different from but on the same level as an apartheid state.

These communities definitely stay protected in the rare instances of any form of law enforcement by these types of laws. But, it is on the level of black people "technically" being allowed to vote in the Jim Crow south. Getting rid of a law like this will not change to the structures of enforcement or the communities that allow these abuses to happen today. The Jim Crow south needed federal law enforcement to enforce its abolishment. That's why I make the comparison. The local law enforcement are literally the people that uphold the patriarchal structures and abuse to begin with.

Unfortunately, the real solution to these issues is not what anyone wants to hear. These communities need to be broken apart, they need fundamental reeducation, and the children of these communities need to be separated from the abusers. This often means separating children from their mothers; as the women in this society are both victims and abusers.

The adults need to be subject to mental health care and reeducation to give them the opportunity to show they can function outside of the abusive community they were born into.

These are communities built to abuse and oppress children and women. They are Nazi like societies that should be treated as such.

We have a long way to go when we can't even get a simple law like this passed. And it's really depressing.

Who is the lobby for this and why the hell aren't they already on a list?

The diarrhea must continue forever, puppies are unfeasible.

as above so below giving devils control