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Republican defends child marriage: I'm "pro-choice" (www.newsweek.com)
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A New Hampshire Republican lawmaker who has been under fire for defending child marriage has lashed out at his "haters" while insisting that his stance is "pro-choice."

State Representative Jess Edwards inspired outrage last week after describing underage teenage girls as "ripe" and "fertile" while arguing against a bill to raise the age of marriage in the Granite State from 16 to 18. The bill passed by a vote of 192-174 despite objections from Edwards and others.

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Edwards described critics of his underage marriage stance as "an army of control freaks that want to entice a pregnant woman into an abortion rather than allow a marriage" in a Facebook post on Monday.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 104 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There is no good way to spin this. Reads like a very poor attempt at a republican “gotcha”

  1. “Im pro choice too. Are you now anti choice? gOtcHa” - idiots
  2. Those legitimately defending it because they want to .. marry .. children - vile predators
  3. “Entice abortion instead of marriage” - remember he is talking about a minor who has been a victim of SA. This bill isn’t about “allowing women the choice to marry and keep the baby”. Its about legitimising sexually assaulting a minor, impregnating them, and then marrying them to make it all “legal and above board”

Conservatives, personally I do not agree with assaulting and marrying children. How can anyone ever defend this? Come defend your reps position. Or maybe wake up and realise this insanity will never stop while you continue to vote these predators into government

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

False equivalencies are conservative bread and butter, make it look like your opponent does what you do because conservatives wont care, but liberals might. Back when I had more energy for social media, when I would see stories like this I would tell a little story I made up to make the point.

A conservative drives to his opponents house in the middle of the night, taking a can of gasoline he dumps gas all over the front of his opponents house. Striking a match, he gleefully lights the house ablaze. Thankfully, the opponent is not home, and the police and firefighters respond quickly. The conservative is being arrested and put into the back of the police car just as his opponent turns up the driveway. The media circus turns their cameras to the car pulling up the lane, then back to the conservative who yells "see my opponent there, in that car, well he uses gas too " . The chyron on Fox now reads: " Hypocrite liberal gets whats coming to him" on CNN you have: "Gas controversy erupts in flames"

What I'm saying is, it doesn't matter how outlandish the equivalency is, you can be guaranteed conservatives will make it, and that the media will bothsides it for them.

Edit: Yes I do a bit of self-cringe when I reread that story.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Edit: Yes I do a bit of self-cringe when I reread that story.

Why? That's actually a very good example.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I first wrote that story out 10 or more years ago, so it feels like a product of my youth, a cartoonish caricature that's so on the nose I should be a little embarrassed I couldn't come up with something more subtle. I'm my own worst critic though.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

cartoonish caricature that’s so on the nose I should be a little embarrassed

Yeah, that describes today's landscape. The Onion is feeling that one too.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

It's actually really good tho.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

#GOP = Gathering of Pedophiles

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grand Old Pedophiles

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Nothing Grand about them.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hello, FBI? This guy right here... Couldn't be more of a red flag.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fucking gross people man.

Gross old pervs.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Openly supporting the right to sexually assault children...

#JustConservativeThings

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You know…. I wonder if the FBI would take a tip and investigate him.

You know. Just to make sure he’s not sexually assaulted any kids in his orbit.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I'm not actually sure the FBI would be able to do anything about it if he is. There is no federal age of consent, just state ages of consent. Now, if he takes pictures while doing it, that's absolutely a federal crime.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 12 points 6 months ago

Edwards described critics of his underage marriage stance as "an army of control freaks that want to entice a pregnant woman into an abortion rather than allow a marriage"

The guy goes on about personal freedom but then puts it as an either/or that someone gets pregnant and they have one of two choices...

[–] Digital_Prophet@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

No, they do, they are doing some fascist shit trying to make words and phrases have no meaning.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

EVERY REPUBLICAN WANTS TO FUCK CHILDREN. YES, EVEN YOU.

(You, if you’re a Republican.)

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I doubt they all personally want to fuck children, but they want children to be fucked.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

They probably wouldn’t say no if the situation presented itself.

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So this guy has shown that he is not smart in the slightest and doesn't understand basic shit so he should obviously be removed from office and never allowed anywhere near children or in any position of authority ever again. That's what would happen in a perfect world.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -2 points 6 months ago

Better yet, people like him would just not exist.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I used to think minimum age requirements for marriage were unnecessary: who would do that? I only read about it in fundamentalist communities that were inherently repressive, so it seemed like just part of the bigger issue.

I still wonder how you can be bound by a co Tracy you’re too young to legally agree to, and where are the parents and authorities on this

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

This sick fuck should move to somewhere where he'd be more at home, like Sudan.

"The Personal Status Law of Muslims, 1991, allows the marriage of a girl from puberty. Ten years-olds can be married with judicial authorization.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age#By_country

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

As soon as the egg is fertilised, it's old enough to marry! It says so in the bible. (Probably)