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If their state constitution works like TX's then its statutory which means that anything not on the books is legal. So if age of consent/marriage/whatever isn't listen then it can't be prosecuted. We had an issue with that during the 90s when Ann Richards was governor, she had to call a special session since a law against selling your child was either forgotten or just wasn't there and some lady was arrested for trying to sell her kid, but had to be let go since it wasn't illegal.
The writer disputes it? I thought he just acknowledged it. And I went wtf‘A get out of jail free card’: GOP bill would eliminate age requirements for marriages in Tennessee
A proposal making its way through the state legislature would establish a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman.” Opponents of the bill (HB 233) say it would eliminate an age r…
Exactly what it says on the tin. The bill's writer disputes the claim, but despite the bill copying all sorts of regulations, age is conspicuously absent.
Sorry, read that part in another article I didn't link like a smarty :V
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Does anyone remember the GOP line about there is no possible way to change marriage.....Sorry, read that part in a other article I didn't link like a smarty :V
Update: Controversial Tennessee marriage bill amended to include age restrictions
UPDATE: Rep. Tom Leatherwood, the author of the bill,told us via email on Wednesday that " we are amending the bill to explicitly say if both parties have attained the age of majority... defined in Tennessee Code as 18 and older. " "My position is that the legislation would not have ever allowed...
Probably not and it depends on what you mean by underage. A lot of states have the legal marrying age as like 16 or so, I think it can get down to something ridiculous like 14 in a few.
What an irony, if they are protecting only homosexuals from child sex abuse.
The bill deleted the requirement of the marriage license entirely, which is where some of the protections were caught up. What sorts of regulations were "copied". Seriously, the bill is like 3 pages, what are even talking about? And the oversight was fixed immediately, leading to articles that look like this:
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Agreed wholeheartedly but if what they're doing is just trying to be total dicks and do what the John Howard government did to our Marriage ACT, they're just narrowing the terms of whom can participate. Is it a requirement to restate the consent part of the law if its enshrined elsewhere and isn't relevant to the changes pursued?
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The initial version of the bill deleted the sections of Tennessee law that established and described the marriage licensing system in the state, including the parts that established minimum age restrictions. Despite that fact, House sponsor Leatherwood erroneously declared, “This bill changes nothing in the current law regarding marriage.” That was wildly false when he said it back on March 9, at which time the draft of the legislation effectively evaporated the entire marriage licensing system in Tennessee.
However, the amended version from March 22 did not destroy the marriage license, but rather added a second way for the state to recognize a marriage, and a second way for a couple to have their marriage formally and officially recorded.
The existing marriage license would retain its age restrictions, so it would remain true that nobody aged under 17 years could be legally permitted by the state to marry. However, assuming the “record of marital contract at common law” was created and was legally and constitutionally robust, operated as planned, and created a legal recognition, by the state of Tennessee, of common law marriages, then it does appear to allow for marriages involving parties aged under 17 years.
Minimum age restrictions are conspicuously absent from the text of the amended bill. Readers can verify this for themselves by reviewing that document. The bill would require the husband and wife to state their dates of birth on the contract, but does not specify any restrictions or obligations on the basis of age.
This is even more noteworthy in light of the fact that the legislation does contain other restrictions. For example, the husband and wife must affirm, under penalty of perjury, that they are not family relatives, not drunk, not acting under duress, and not already married. Yet there is no requirement for them to affirm that neither of them is aged under 18 or 17 or even 16 years.
In order for the county clerk to file a record of the common law marriage, under the legislation the husband and wife must present a valid state-issued ID. However, the clerk is not required to visually inspect those IDs to ensure the date of birth of each participant is earlier than a certain date 17 years ago, for instance — a basic check that happens countless times each day in beer and liquor stores across Tennessee.
In fact, the absence of an age restriction is even more glaring when one contemplates the fact that some of the text of the bill was clearly borrowed from the existing marriage license restrictions in Tennessee law. For example, here’s how HB 0233/SB 0562 forbids incestuous common law marriages:
And here’s how the existing marriage license statute expresses the same ban:
Clearly, the drafters of the 2022 bill were familiar with the ways in which existing Tennessee law regulates marriage, and replicated some of those rules and even the wording used to outline them. For whatever reason, the minimum age restrictions were not included in that transferral.
The bill currently before the General Assembly would create a new, second way in which the state recognizes marriages. That legislation would not prohibit marriage for those aged under 17 years old, and indeed does not establish any minimum age restrictions at all. Therefore, the claim that the 2022 legislation would “legalize child marriage” is accurate.
Wait, we're in trouble because the law got amended for clear mistakes?Do you really all enjoy the Democratic propaganda this much? What the hell does this mean?
The bill deleted the requirement of the marriage license entirely, which is where some of the protections were caught up. What sorts of regulations were "copied". Seriously, the bill is like 3 pages, what are even talking about? And the oversight was fixed immediately, leading to articles that look like this:
Which you seem to be aware of the updates, since you knew the claim was disputed but decided to post a different with less information.[CORRECTED] Tennessee bill would legalize child marriage, forced marriages
[Editor’s note (4/5): A previous version of this article said that Tennessee House Bill 0233 contained language that would legalize child and nonconsensual marriages. After review, we learned we were using outdated information that was already corrected by press time. The bill was already...
Do you not all see how much like Pizzagate ya'll are?
We are apparently in trouble for not accurately* predicting the future
