From Wikipedia:
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Oklahoma do not allow underage marriage. The other states allow an underage person to marry in the following circumstances:
If one or more of the following apply:
- consent of the parents or legal guardians of the >minor
- consent of a court clerk or judge
- if the minor is emancipated.
Or in exceptional circumstances if one or more of the following circumstances apply:
- consent of a superior court judge, rather than a local judge, is required
- if one of the parties is pregnant
- if the minor has given birth to a child
Basically, in these places, there’s a loophole where offenders can marry their rape victims after the fact to make it look proper for the church or something. That and also allow parents or guardians to sell minors into arranged marriages.
I wonder if anyone was dumb enough to oppose this ban and if so we should list them.
I’d be much more inclined to bash reckless ebikers if we did anything to reign in the rampant reckless multi-ton vehicule drivers.
Guess what… any time I walk there’s at least a dozen people driving by me at 3 times the speed limit. There’s at least one person burning the red light at every cycle. Stop signs have become a suggestion, people ride your heels whenever you cross the road. Some lunatics recently started honking and cussing at the school crossing guards, and that’s if they’re even looking around them instead of browsing on their phones.
Fuck deranged car-brains.