“A 16 year old is not a minor if married to their partner. Also, a 16 year old may marry in Texas if the parents give permission.
Michelle, you are missing the point.
A “spiritual” marriage is NOT a legal marriage. Texas enacted LAW specicifically targetting the practice of polygamous, “spirit” marriages.
A spiritual marriage is nothing more than ceremonial, institutionalized, statutory rape in the FLDS IF THE CHILD IS UNDER 18.”
That is it in a nutsack.
how many of these young women and children who are given away in these “spiritual marriages” even WANT to be with the men they are told to “spiritual marry?”
The entire basis in which the “spiritual marriage” (which is not a marriage in the legal sense at all and therefore primarily rape) is cohersion of more females of any age after their onset of puberty for the purposes of breeding. If you cannot call that such, abuse then we have missed the definition altogether in lieu of pointless parsing.
The pre-pubescent children are at just as much risk of the same fate in a few years if these practices are allowed to continue. And ignorance isn’t a reasonable defense.
Have the fathers of any of these children even submitted DNA yet?
