07-24-2015, 02:31 AM
Interesting how fundies say we need religion to teach us morality and that if gays are allowed to wed that pedophiles will be marrying children (despite the inability to give legal consent). Yet where are adult men most likely to legally marry prepubescent girls? Same countries that kill gays! (This also includes some Christian nations and factions in Africa, btw, not just Islamic states.) Meanwhile, countries like Canada that allow gays equality are typically very harsh on any form of child exploitation or pedophilia (that is if some "moral" man brought over his preteen bride he legally married in his own country for a honeymoon in Canada he'd be on the fast track to prison.)
Ironic that Christian fundies want to "save children" by turning back the social clock...you know, to when kids married (sometimes in shotgun weddings) as a matter of course and even Edgar Allen Poe, at age 26, married his 13-year-old first cousin! (Btw, many states that amended their constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, or even to deny civil unions still allow first cousins to marry and have children.)
Ironic that Christian fundies want to "save children" by turning back the social clock...you know, to when kids married (sometimes in shotgun weddings) as a matter of course and even Edgar Allen Poe, at age 26, married his 13-year-old first cousin! (Btw, many states that amended their constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, or even to deny civil unions still allow first cousins to marry and have children.)