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"I’m Myra," answered the girl. "Jerry’s wife."
It wasn’t. Despite Lewis’s assertions that Myra was "a grown woman", as far as Britain was concerned, she was below the age of consent.
The headlines the next day were not good for the star’s first day in Britain.
But they were about to get much worse when it was quickly discovered that Lewis, 22 at the time of the wedding, had been lying.
Myra wasn’t 15. She was 13, and, therefore, absolutely not a "grown woman".
What’s more, she was the singer’s first cousin once removed.
And if that wasn’t enough, it was also revealed that he may have been bigamously married to her, since he hadn’t yet become divorced from his second wife, whom he’d married at 17, having wed his first wife at 14.
Based on state marriage license data and other sources, advocacy groups and experts estimate that between 2000 and 2015 alone, well over 200,000 children — nearly all of them girls — were married. In nearly all cases the husband was an adult.
Twenty-five states do not set a minimum age at which a person can get married, and eight more set it at an age lower than 16. Alaska and North Carolina, for example, set the age at 14. In New Hampshire it's 13 for girls, 14 for boys.
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Painterz
That's seriously f#cked up. Any idea which branch of religion is practising this?
I read at one point that Idaho has the highest rate of child marriage in the US, but that's an older statistic, early 2000's, I think. Via a google search, Pew says W Virginia and Texas, ironically, have the highest rate of child marriage now. However, this only counts 15-17 as the youngest age group, so it's probably not accurate either, Idaho might still be in the lead.
www.pewresearch.org...
I'm having a rough time finding detailed, verifiable stats for both age & religious rankings. I think we can tentatively suss out likely sect culprits in states & regions from the available info, though.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Can you give me some kind of reference where child sexual abuse is acceptable biblically. You are so ignorant it beggars belief
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Can you give me some kind of reference where child sexual abuse is acceptable biblically. You are so ignorant it beggars belief
In biblical times the life span would probably have been around 50yrs except
for the occasional methuselah.... so it was perhaps prudent to procreate at an
earlier age? Women/young girls were not educated and so were only house
trained to look after men?
Today females are educated to the same level as men are productive in the work
place and quite capable of living to 100yrs .... so comparisions with biblical times is
futile (apples to oranges comes to mind)
Today people in general are better educated making what was normal in biblical
times unacceptable now, and adjustments for that need to take place
so we dont have child abuse. There is a need to move with the times on this and
all other things.
No sex till marriage.
That's what Abrahamic religion, Christianity teaches
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Where is sex before marriage acceptable in the old and New Testament
Conservative Christians Kill Bill Banning Child Marriage In Kentucky
The modest bill would not totally ban child marriages, but would require a judge to review records to make sure that the child was not the victim of abuse, that there are not domestic violence incident involving either party and that the adult is not a registered sex-offender. The bill would require that the judge deny the right to marry if there was a pregnancy that resulted from the adult spouse molesting the child.
Bottom line: Kentucky Republicans, facing pressure from a powerful conservative Christian lobby, refuses to protect children as young as 13 from being forced into marriage. And they call it “Christian love.”
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Where is sex before marriage acceptable in the old and New Testament
'Sex' is 'the human condition' once an 'adult' it is no one else's business
sex has always been around both in and out of marriage!!
Were Adam and Eve married
links? i'm a white christian living in the good ol' bible thumpin' heart of south east georgia, and i have NEVER heard of any christians (white or otherwise) marrying children. what i HAVE heard of is people getting jailed, having thier houses burned down, or simply being shot or beaten to death for #in' with little kids. any links to legitimate factual articles or websites would be greatly appreciated .
originally posted by: Painterz
Girls as young as 10 have been forced into marriages under legal loopholes that allow minors to be married in certain situations, such as parental consent or pregnancy. With over 200,000 minors married to older men over the last 15 years alone.
Is this the Taliban in action across the USA? Sadly not. This is a significant cultural movement which is seeing old men marrying underaged girls because 'God'.
In May Chris Christie refused to sign in a law banning the practice because he said it would conflict with 'religious customs'. Was he protecting Islamic customs? Of course not, this is white Christian custom.
At least 207,468 minors married in the US between 2000 and 2015, according to data compiled by Unchained At Last and investigative series Frontline.
The youngest wedded were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001.
Children as young as 12 were granted marriage licences in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while 11 other states allowed 13-year-olds to wed.
More than 1,000 children aged 14 or under were granted marriage licences.
Pretty shocking numbers. This is exactly the sort of thing people regularly and rightly criticise Sharia law for allowing, yet here it is happening on a massive scale across America.