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A 22 year old man in Nebraska is being prosecuted for statutory rape because his new wife is 14. The high school sweehearts (Okay, only she was in school) hopped the border and married in Kansas, where apparently you can marry anyone older than a fetus. When they returned from Dorthy-land an aggressive cornhusker prosecutor threw the book at the older husband.
The townspeople were up in arms. Not becasue the 22 year old was shacking up with a kid, but because the police wouldn't let them be. Aren't these these child abusers and their apologists the same people who are passing anti-gay laws and shredding Constitutions to prohibit gay folks the freedom to marry? Good thing we have red state straights in Kansas and Nebraska to "protect" marriage from gay people.
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The people in the Red states like to stereotype us because that way they can feel ok about hating gay people. They always need someone to hate and they usually pick on the easiest to target because bigots are cowards. Gay people are no different from straight people but as long as the bigots can lie to themselves they will feel OK with hating us.
Its so transparent, the overwhelming moronic majority of right wingers are the biggest hypocrites, bigots and detriment to marriage, not gays. If anything, we'd improve on it.
The reason the 22 year old man is looking at jail is not that he married a 14 year old. The reason he is in trouble is for having sex with a 13 year old girl (and knocked her up). The crime was committed before he married her, thus not changing the legal implications.
In order to fully prosecute statutory rape, there must be concrete evidence. Being x-months pregnant is sufficient but requires x-months. Hence the delay, during which time the dude tried to cover himself by marrying her. Unfortunately for him, parental consent is not required for a statutory charge to proceed.
The fact is, the marriage angle is a red herring.
posted by Anonymous, at
8/31/2005 9:24 PM