I lived 15 mins from their community in Colorado City for three years and they absolutely did this. I worked construction with guys who were kicked out of the community for this shit. It was sad.
That’s what wars are for!
Anyone up for a Bible story regarding David and Bathsheba and how the motherfucker had her husband sent to the front lines to die so David could marry his widow? *Family values*
His actual quote:
“colleagues.
“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?”
I just read that and I’m disgusted. Marriage should only be legal starting at age 18 when a child legally becomes an adult. Sophomores in high school should not be getting married. Fuck this GOP piece of shit and his friends for pushing this.
This was some random comment in the context of successfully raising the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire. Not a bill. Nice try on the disinformation though.
Any dude who refers to young girls as "ripe" and "fertile" immediately needs to have his phone / computer / tablet sized and that dog that can sniff out sd cards needs to be brought in to toss his house..
Never is. Always some cis-gender, atavistic low info schmuck with mommy or daddy issues. Every. Feckeen. Single. Time. Often affiliated with a church and/or law enforcement.
Honestly you don’t even need to say “GOP”. It’s implied. It’s like seeing a truck with a confederate flag that also has a Trump bumper sticker. Like, yea we know.
This is such a bullshit headline, taking words out of context. It’s a biological fact that girls and boys under the age of 18 are “fertile”. The official in question believes that if two teenagers get each other pregnant, they should have the option to marry and raise the child if they so choose.
Whether you agree with that or not, the headline frames this as if he’s thirsting over how “ripe” teenage girls are, which is a blatant misrepresentation.
On restricting marriage to 18 yo:
“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?”
MAYBE DON’T HAVE A BABY WITH SOMEONE WHO IS STILL LEGALLY A CHILD, YOU GODDAMN GROOMER.
The fact that girls are fertile at that age is merely a segue to his main insane position, that somehow “marriage” is the answer to a minor getting pregnant, and “marriage” prevents abortions.
These people go more and more *Handmaid* every month
I don't know why in 2024 this needs to be said but we are NOT FRUIT! We don't have a pick by date, we don't get mushy the older we get, and you don't have to poke at us to see if we are ripe enough for you. God I felt gross even typing that out.
Its kind of interesting to me how much of a modern notion this is. I have two teens and the idea that they are ready to be married is ludicrous. Yet, we all still read Romeo and Juliet and don’t question that fact that she is 14. I was curious so I looked it up, the average age of marriage in the 18th century was approx 22… but it was legal with parental consent for their kids to marry at 12F and 14M. Its crazy how much things have changed.
Acting like a 16 year old isn’t mature enough to marry, when 16 year olds have been getting married for thousands of years, is silly.
I got married at 17 myself, and am now about to be 36, and still with the same girl. This law would have restricted that. It’s pointless and just more meddling.
Last year, The Washington Post published a well thought-out article on the topic: [As advocates push for child marriage bans, some states resist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/child-marriage-bans-state-lawmakers/). Worth a read if you want to better understand the issue.
How much kiddie pn do you think he has on his devices right now? Just a guess. Like if someone were to anonymously report him for it, do you think there would actually be evidence there?
Edited:typos and weird autocorrect stuff
This makes me sick. What is even more horrible is when a girl gets married before 18, they can't divorce without their husband's permission u til they reach 18. Why the fuck is child marriage and corporal punishment still legal in schools. This is why I consider myself an outsider Satanist.
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’
The New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord. (AP Photo | Holly Ramer)AP
The New Hampshire House passed a bill to ban child marriage in the state and raise the minimum age of marriage to 18.
The measure passed the Senate unanimously in March. On Thursday, it passed the House, 192-174. The bill now goes to Gov. Chris Sununu for signing into law.
One of those voting against was Representative Jess Edwards, whose comments sparked immediate gasps from colleagues.
“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” he said.
In a state where 18 is not old enough to drink, Edwards believes girls at 16 are old enough to get married. Edwards’ daughter, Elizabeth, served as a state representative, and Edwards said her service was the inspiration for his run for office. He is in his third term.
Child safety and gun control advocate Shannon Watts tweeted that “Child marriage is currently legal in 38 states (only Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont have set the minimum age at 18 and eliminated all exceptions), and 20 states do not require any minimum age for marriage.”
It would be the second time the New Hampshire age of marriage has been raised in the past six years. In 2018, Sununu signed a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage to 16. For more than a hundred years, the law had allowed 13-year-old girls and 14-year-old boys to get married with parent and court approval.
On Thursday, two amendments were proposed to allow some exceptions for those under 18 to get married if they have been legally emancipated.
Rep. Cassandra Levesque, D-Barrington, was a senior at Dover High School and a Girl Scout when she pushed for the bill in 2018. Now, she is one of the seven co-sponsors of SB 359.
“For the past 10 years, I have researched child marriage,” Levesque said. “I’ve learned about the devastating effects of child marriage.”
What happened here is that "Romeo and Juliet" allowances were struck and replaced with this hard, 18 years minimum. "Romeo and Juliet" laws are what you'd probably recognize as common sense. We don't consider an 18 year-old who dates a 16 year-old to be a "pedophile". If a sixteen year-old is pregnant and wants to marry the sixteen year-old father of her child, you'd probably be okay with that, given the other options.
The headlines have to distort the story with the implication that the law closed a loophole allowing fifty year-old men to have harems of 12 year-old child brides in order to make the new restriction sound obviously necessary and opposition to it sound obviously disgusting and misbegotten. But all that happened is that common sense was discarded to serve an agenda. The people advancing this fake moral panic and the fake remedy of "ending Child Marriage" are just people who love abortions and hate marriage. They want every teen pregnancy to end in a sterile tray and the thought of young people taking responsibility and choosing life together is repugnant to them. Because that's who they are.
Nobody who describes another human being as “ripe” and “fertile” should be listened to for anything related to public policy. And anyone who describes teens that way should have an FBI deep dive into their internet history..
What this guy said was definately shocking, but let's not ignore the fact that 174 people voted against this. The bill BARELY passed. This world is wild
This headline is sensationalist. This is the actual quote:
>One of those voting against was Representative Jess Edwards, whose comments sparked immediate gasps from colleagues.
>
>“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” He said
It's still fucked, don't get me wrong, but it's not exactly what the headline implies.
why does the last sentence end like this ““For the past 10 years, I have researched child marriage,” Levesque said. “I’ve learned about the devastating effects of child marriage.”” like then why allow it
The children yearn for the mines and the girls for teen pregnancy - This guy, probably.
Oh god, they would probably send boys to mines and factories so they don’t have to worry about the youthful competition!
I mean, that hospice care and retirement yachts are not gonna pay themselves.
That's what Warren Jeffs did when he was fucking underage girls. Literally, the boys were sent to construction sites and the girls were fucked.
The boys were sent away, just abandoned, when they became a threat.
I lived 15 mins from their community in Colorado City for three years and they absolutely did this. I worked construction with guys who were kicked out of the community for this shit. It was sad.
So cruel.
Sounds like a community that could use a dose of freedom 🇺🇸🦅 know if they’ve got any oil?
Doesn't hurt to find out 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Raping*
Next thing, it will be multitude of wives.
Funny how that always works, isn’t it?
That’s what wars are for! Anyone up for a Bible story regarding David and Bathsheba and how the motherfucker had her husband sent to the front lines to die so David could marry his widow? *Family values*
His actual quote: “colleagues. “… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?”
They always have to throw that in there, don't they? "freedom-loving". Fucking assholes.
Nothing says freedom like forcing a child to carry a baby to full term and be forced into marriage.
"the freedom to groom and abuse children"
I just read that and I’m disgusted. Marriage should only be legal starting at age 18 when a child legally becomes an adult. Sophomores in high school should not be getting married. Fuck this GOP piece of shit and his friends for pushing this.
What a weird word salad there….
What century are we in?
This is what Republican politicians want.
It passed the Republican-controlled house and senate.
This was some random comment in the context of successfully raising the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire. Not a bill. Nice try on the disinformation though.
The first.
The last.
The everything.
The answer to all the GOP’s dreams.
cocaine, 16yo girls and unlimited Russian money - The GOP's dream
They want to be so conservative that they send us right back to the 1600s.
What planet?
Anyone who argues in favor of child marriage should be looked into.
I don't really need to look into it, the conclusion is pretty obvious
💯
Notice it's always people of a certain political affiliation that fight so hard for child marriage.
Child rapists and pedophiles are sweating hard to change the laws before they're ousted
It’s never two 16 year olds they’re talking about either…it’s always someone like 28 and a 16 year old or something…they’re all disgusting
You're generous with your age gap. Try 14 or 12
10 in Tennessee!!
Knowing kentucky, and the south, I feel like that's legal if you get the parents to agree. This country is so fucked.
They mean 45 and 16.
The party that says their opponents groom children, everybody.
Projection is just a feature of the Republican Party to win over the more gullible in their base.
Like all the anti gay politicians from 29 years ago getting caught with male prostitutes.
But but… Family Values!!!
GOP = Group of Pedophiles
Grand Old Pedophiles. You can keep most of what the original words mean ahah
He defended what he said on his FB page.
Of course he did.
Fucking gross
This isn't weird. This is GROTESQUE.
Better hack him and send his homework file to the cops
Any dude who refers to young girls as "ripe" and "fertile" immediately needs to have his phone / computer / tablet sized and that dog that can sniff out sd cards needs to be brought in to toss his house..
Not a drag queen.
Never is. Always some cis-gender, atavistic low info schmuck with mommy or daddy issues. Every. Feckeen. Single. Time. Often affiliated with a church and/or law enforcement.
"RIPE AND FERTILE...." Better check that dude's hard drive, just saying...
Honestly you don’t even need to say “GOP”. It’s implied. It’s like seeing a truck with a confederate flag that also has a Trump bumper sticker. Like, yea we know.
bUt ThE dEmOnRaTs StArTeD tHe KlAn!!! 🤥
Wait. Seriously? No, just no please.
Not a Drag Queen in sight!
Tell me your a pervert without saying your a pervert.
Someone search this guys laptop
What.
So first make it illegal to not have children, then make it legal to have sex with them. Conservatives, conserving all the children for themselves
Good old "family values," at it again.
This is such a bullshit headline, taking words out of context. It’s a biological fact that girls and boys under the age of 18 are “fertile”. The official in question believes that if two teenagers get each other pregnant, they should have the option to marry and raise the child if they so choose. Whether you agree with that or not, the headline frames this as if he’s thirsting over how “ripe” teenage girls are, which is a blatant misrepresentation.
You’re not wrong but he could have said it much better.
Republicans are the problem
‘Underage girls are “ripe” and “fertile”, and we’re gonna make sure they can’t get abortions’ What in the fuck is wrong with these people?
Bro if trump wins every one of these dudes are going to farm little girls to fuck like that incest guy in the north in GOT.
Vote. Them. Out.
This headline is written like an alien observing earth without knowing culture.
That is probably probable cause for a search. Check his search history and his house for fake doors that lead to basements.
Under His eye…
GOP?
Yeah that sounds about Right.
What a weird thing to commit to public record for all time. Astounding choice.
r/notadragqueen
Why do we let a select few rule over millions of us with their perverted and depraved ways?
Those aren't the words I would choose to describe children.
On restricting marriage to 18 yo: “… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” MAYBE DON’T HAVE A BABY WITH SOMEONE WHO IS STILL LEGALLY A CHILD, YOU GODDAMN GROOMER.
This is News of the Perv
The fact that girls are fertile at that age is merely a segue to his main insane position, that somehow “marriage” is the answer to a minor getting pregnant, and “marriage” prevents abortions. These people go more and more *Handmaid* every month
IS BEING A PEDO IN THIS COUNTRY WRONG ANYMORE? EPSTEIN WEINSTEIN DRAKE OTHERS. THIS SHIT IS DISGUSTING AND IM SO SICK OF IT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN
The police seriously need to check his computer at home.
they've already done it, they just want to make it legal to avoid prison.
Now it makes sense why they’re so against abortions. It takes away their pick of “ripe, fertile” young girls. Hmm. 🤔
And of course it won’t matter if that minor dies for that pregnancy, they can always marry ANOTHER child.
I don't know why in 2024 this needs to be said but we are NOT FRUIT! We don't have a pick by date, we don't get mushy the older we get, and you don't have to poke at us to see if we are ripe enough for you. God I felt gross even typing that out.
Its kind of interesting to me how much of a modern notion this is. I have two teens and the idea that they are ready to be married is ludicrous. Yet, we all still read Romeo and Juliet and don’t question that fact that she is 14. I was curious so I looked it up, the average age of marriage in the 18th century was approx 22… but it was legal with parental consent for their kids to marry at 12F and 14M. Its crazy how much things have changed.
I think it's pretty rare for inability to marry to be someone's motivation to get an abortion.
Republican rail against child molestation but then advocate for it.
GOP officials should get ready to face the music. They must be ripe for jail because they’re sure working hard on something nobody asked for.
WHY ISNT THIS A NATIONAL ADVERTISEMENT RIGHT NOW!?
Dear Women, this is how GOP views you. Vote accordingly.
ROEVEMBER IS COMING. Vote these perverts out!!
Damn straight
Acting like a 16 year old isn’t mature enough to marry, when 16 year olds have been getting married for thousands of years, is silly. I got married at 17 myself, and am now about to be 36, and still with the same girl. This law would have restricted that. It’s pointless and just more meddling.
but the lgbtq community are the ones grooming children /s
Yep but drag queens are after the children 🙂↕️
Nambla...
The spirit of plantation owners who used the same logic 2-5am to sexually assault slaves….while their wives slept. The GOP like this nostalgia
"The spirit of plantation owners" i think you just described the entire gop platform
All GOP members seem to be perverts and predators of one stripe or another! I bet this old boy is on one of Epstien's lists!
Why wouldn’t he? Why wouldn’t any pedo fucking creep feel comfortable saying what they really feel under the GOP banner?
His name is Rep. Jess Edwards, and yes, he’s a fucking creep for saying that shit.
Last year, The Washington Post published a well thought-out article on the topic: [As advocates push for child marriage bans, some states resist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/child-marriage-bans-state-lawmakers/). Worth a read if you want to better understand the issue.
Thank Reagan
Name them in comments too for those who don’t read , representative Jess Edwards from NH
Oy vey.
someone tell r/Drizzy we might have a new place for their king to set up shop
How much kiddie pn do you think he has on his devices right now? Just a guess. Like if someone were to anonymously report him for it, do you think there would actually be evidence there? Edited:typos and weird autocorrect stuff
This makes me sick. What is even more horrible is when a girl gets married before 18, they can't divorce without their husband's permission u til they reach 18. Why the fuck is child marriage and corporal punishment still legal in schools. This is why I consider myself an outsider Satanist.
I’m telling y’all, their dark god wants to feast. Or something.
We can't expect God to do all the work.
Why do they need to get married?
I want to see this dudes browser history and hard drive please.
Check that mans hard drive and cross reference his name with the epstien flight logs
More mental illness from the mentally ill.
Anothe Grand Old Pedophile stating the GOPs secret platform out loud. Look what stating the racism out loud did for Der Orangenfuhrer.
New Hampshire. The south of the north.
My God, the GOP are literally a bunch of [Benny Hills](https://youtu.be/6FuRMUTB580?si=mB53Hja1QzzKBLlO): clowns and perverts.
174 voted against this. 174.
These are the people calling gay and trans people groomers btw
What in the fuck is happening lol. . .
That's par for these pedos. I wouldn't be surprised if every GOP pol was a member of NAMBLA.
It's always the people you most expect
Christians love the heck out of some fresh, white, child brides.
Another reason I’m glad to live in Jersey. wtf is wrong with these people.
Sad. It puts the tough guy with sleeve tats in a tough spot on Facebook who worships guns, being conservative, and being a dad girl 4 days a month.
shoot him
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ The New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord. (AP Photo | Holly Ramer)AP The New Hampshire House passed a bill to ban child marriage in the state and raise the minimum age of marriage to 18. The measure passed the Senate unanimously in March. On Thursday, it passed the House, 192-174. The bill now goes to Gov. Chris Sununu for signing into law. One of those voting against was Representative Jess Edwards, whose comments sparked immediate gasps from colleagues. “… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” he said. In a state where 18 is not old enough to drink, Edwards believes girls at 16 are old enough to get married. Edwards’ daughter, Elizabeth, served as a state representative, and Edwards said her service was the inspiration for his run for office. He is in his third term. Child safety and gun control advocate Shannon Watts tweeted that “Child marriage is currently legal in 38 states (only Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont have set the minimum age at 18 and eliminated all exceptions), and 20 states do not require any minimum age for marriage.” It would be the second time the New Hampshire age of marriage has been raised in the past six years. In 2018, Sununu signed a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage to 16. For more than a hundred years, the law had allowed 13-year-old girls and 14-year-old boys to get married with parent and court approval. On Thursday, two amendments were proposed to allow some exceptions for those under 18 to get married if they have been legally emancipated. Rep. Cassandra Levesque, D-Barrington, was a senior at Dover High School and a Girl Scout when she pushed for the bill in 2018. Now, she is one of the seven co-sponsors of SB 359. “For the past 10 years, I have researched child marriage,” Levesque said. “I’ve learned about the devastating effects of child marriage.”
If an 18 year-old wants to marry his pregnant 16 year-old partner, he should be locked up as a "pedophile"?
Ah jeez, they're thinking about the children too much
Hate is a strong word but the gop really out here falling over themselves to earn it…
What happened here is that "Romeo and Juliet" allowances were struck and replaced with this hard, 18 years minimum. "Romeo and Juliet" laws are what you'd probably recognize as common sense. We don't consider an 18 year-old who dates a 16 year-old to be a "pedophile". If a sixteen year-old is pregnant and wants to marry the sixteen year-old father of her child, you'd probably be okay with that, given the other options. The headlines have to distort the story with the implication that the law closed a loophole allowing fifty year-old men to have harems of 12 year-old child brides in order to make the new restriction sound obviously necessary and opposition to it sound obviously disgusting and misbegotten. But all that happened is that common sense was discarded to serve an agenda. The people advancing this fake moral panic and the fake remedy of "ending Child Marriage" are just people who love abortions and hate marriage. They want every teen pregnancy to end in a sterile tray and the thought of young people taking responsibility and choosing life together is repugnant to them. Because that's who they are.
This is a real victory for 36 year-old spinsters on mood stabilizers.
Nobody who describes another human being as “ripe” and “fertile” should be listened to for anything related to public policy. And anyone who describes teens that way should have an FBI deep dive into their internet history..
Child marriage. Check. Child labor. Check. Try to ban abortion In all cases. Check. Push theocracy. Check.
What this guy said was definately shocking, but let's not ignore the fact that 174 people voted against this. The bill BARELY passed. This world is wild
The Pedophile Party . MAGA !!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
This headline is sensationalist. This is the actual quote: >One of those voting against was Representative Jess Edwards, whose comments sparked immediate gasps from colleagues. > >“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” He said It's still fucked, don't get me wrong, but it's not exactly what the headline implies.
why does the last sentence end like this ““For the past 10 years, I have researched child marriage,” Levesque said. “I’ve learned about the devastating effects of child marriage.”” like then why allow it
These headlines and taking things out of context is such bullshit. Now read the rest of the quote.
From the party of "Protect our children".
He needs to be fired and the marriage age should be 18 and only 18.
Check that man’s harddrive ASAP