RE: American Legislators Are Now Putting Age Limits On Legalizing Love
Also another thing that bothered me and this just further shows how illogical and messed up our age of consent laws are so statutory rape which in my honest opinion is a waste of many things and redundant to have around. so in many, many states in america the age of consent is 16, 16 as far as I know seems to be the most consisent age. so color me this if that is the age of consent why on this big blue planet earth can a person STILL get hit with a statutory rape charge in a case where they may have slept together or did something sexual... IF the age of consent is 16? so what is it? is it 16 or not? this is why some of these laws make for worse than for better.
and how could someone aged 16 still possibly be seen as a child in society when by this point you can get in your own car and drive around and I believe legally own weapons too and probably some other things too. do not even get me started on if someone happens to be 18 and may have consensual relations with someone 16- 15 - 17 or 14 and they can still get hit with the same charges despite them being in the same age range as these people and still despite what any law states still adolecents themselves I.E since some people fail to blur the line of adloecents 16- 15 etc. from a 10 year old they are children too in their own warped view and definition. It makes no sense that you are still a teen at 18 yet not old enough to drink but old enough to be sent to freaking DIE in war. Okay it is late and I need to sleep talking about the sheer inconsitent and idiocy and just holes in these laws and the fact some people see them as absolute is making me get upset and I need to relax that is enough.
Naglfar94? I'm glad to have heard from you again. What I'm really happy about is that my article above has been entered into a contest here on Steemit. That means that more people are going to read my articles and more people are going to realize how the actions of individuals like Fraidy Reiss of Unchained At Last and Jeanne Smoot of The Tahirih Justice Center are hurting our nation. As I have stressed in other articles of mine, what you'll notice is that at no time have any of these new marriage laws been decided from a proposition, measure or question on any state's voting ballots. These people just misuse our state legislatures to shove these laws down our throats; and they never put these pieces of proposed legislation on the November ballots of any state in the form of a proposition, question or measure, because they know that the majority will likely vote against these pieces of proposed legislation from ever becoming law. You wanted to know if it were possible to get rid of these laws and return back to the old laws? It won't be easy to do so, but it has been known to happen. I read somewhere that the Commonwealth of Virginia once had an age floor of 15 years old for marriage back in the 1990s and then that state eventually went back to the English Common Law, which sets an age floor of 14 years old for boys and 12 years old for girls for marriage. Then in 2016, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia set forth an age floor of 16 years old for marriage; but it is possible for this same state to return back to the English Common Law regarding marriage, if it happened before. If state jurisdictions whose marriage laws have been tampered with were ever to go back to their preceding marriage laws, in this day and age, it would likely happen in the form of stare decisis from the Supreme Court of the United States. Elected officials seem to cave in easily to the intimidation tactics of extremists like Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot nowadays. In the meantime, I believe that the best thing for all of us to do is to spread the word about the injustices that will continue to ensue as more state jurisdictions undergo these legislative changes for the worst, so at least we as a people can cut our societal losses. In response to your points about the statutory-age-of-consent laws in our nation, I realize that prosecutors are going to become more aggressive than before about seeking convictions under these same laws, because they know that there will now be less legal options for couples like Phil and Maria in state jurisdictions that have tightened up their marriage laws in the manner that Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot have suckered them into doing so through their state legislatures. Jury nullification is the only line of defense to keep the wrong people from going to prison, and that line of defense is falling upon shaky grounds. Anyhow, I'm going to be publishing another article on this topic in the near future, so stay tuned to my Steemit channel and thank you for commenting.