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Posted by: cyanidefreak 07/09/2008, 11:42:47 (About author)
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You're talking about age of consent laws in the case of sex and they are based, these days, on ... I don't know what any more. I suppose they are based on the difference between the age legislatures believe people are biologically capable of having sex and the age people are mature enough not to be exploited by legal adults. In the U.S. they all range between 16 and 18 now, but the range was much wider not long ago. There's other age restictions on our various sins - 18 to smoke, 21 to drink, 18 to vote, 15 to 18 to drive ... the list is long. The Constitution is to blame you know. There's age restrictions in there.
I know that a lot of people think that there's some kind of relation between age of consent laws and the Bible but there isn't. Scripture only describes marriage as the situation when sex can occur without being a sin. The Bible, thankfully, isn't a religion by itself and many religions falsely claim scriptural reference for their thoughts on age of consent. The FLDS is actually correct about their scriptural claims in this regard - there is no age restriction but there are references in the Bible to the advantages of men marrying young women. But we are not ruled by the Bible. WE re rule by laws. WE can make laws and change laws, but we are supposed to obey existing laws. Legalizing prostitution would be a solution to a lot of problems but it doesn't address the present situation. The FLDS communities engage in criminal activities - things that are illegal right now starting with existing as breeding grounds for human stock to a select group of men. It's a specialized version of what appeared in South Carolina in the 18oo's, "...they are not Negroes selected out of a larger gang for the purpose of a sale, but are prime. Their present Owner, with great trouble and expense, selected them out of many for several years past. They were purchased as stock and breeding Negroes, and for any Planter who particularly wanted them for that purpose, they are a very choice and desirable gang." At the YFZ Ranch they are not breeding for choice Negroes, they are breeding for females. |
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