Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition
Senate Bill 341 would have ended a loophole letting 17-year-olds marry legal adults up to four years older than them with court approval and seemed bound for passage. No one testified against it during its five public readings, and it had the support of youth advocates and the Catholic church.
The legislation had a pair of bipartisan sponsors, and it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously on Wednesday, the last full day before the summer recess began. Despite the initial momentum in the Senate, the bill never passed there in a full floor vote, and it had yet to be introduced in the House.
Still, campaigners and lawmakers said it was “mind-boggling” that the bill has not progressed. “It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag…it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,” Fraidy Reiss, founder of the non-profit Unchained At Last, which campaigns against child marriage, told the Ohio Capital Journal.
“It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag… it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,”
Yeah, I see the problem right there. * gestures vaguely at legislature full of creepy men who prey on teenage girls *
they probably would be the judges of a beauty pageant for young girls.
Release the voting information. Name and shame the people who voted against it.
There can be reasons it didn’t pass besides the name.
Okay, I did some quick research. This looks like a clean bill. Republicans don’t want to pass it because it might increase abortion rates.
It does only move the legal age from 17 to 18, and at 17 it does require judicial review. However getting married under 18 is a problem because you have limited rights before you’re 18. It’s difficult to get out of an abusive marriage, for instance, before you’re 18.
Harming children because they want to continue harming women.
Brick your local GOP.
Let’s be Chaotic Good barbarians.
Things to do in Ohio: leave.
Unfortunately, the victims of these communities are the least likely to be able to do that.
most of ohio did go to trump though.
I love my home state of Michigan but one of the few gripes about it that I have is our only two land-linked neighbors we can drive to are Indiana and motherfucking Ohio.
speaking from the Lower Peninsula aren’t ya?
Yes 😔
When I lived in Michigan, I would frequently see a bumper sticker that said:
Keep Michigan clean, dump your trash in Ohio!
I’d love to!
Now if anyone wants to donate to my Moving Fund…
Ohio 💀
The douchebag that married my half-sister when she was 15–16* and he was 21–22* was from Ohio, so I’ll just register my lack of surprise.
*Ages approximate because I’ve never been close to that side of my blood.
We need to PROTECT Children from
RAPISTS!SEX TRAFFICKERS!UNDERAGED MARRIAGE!NOT having their Genitals Inspected by Strangers!-Republican Voters LITERALLY!
They’ll probably do a genital inspection on every young girl before she gets married…you know, just to make sure those perverted trans folk aren’t getting married.
Who is the lobby for this and why the hell aren’t they already on a list?
They are on a list.
Not that a full client list ever existed.
I’m guessing it is the same elderly white men who are also calling for younger people to be having babies that voted this down.
I don’t mean to make a joke about this but was there no public opposition because they are legally not allowed to vote, and thus aren’t part of the legislation.
While obviously legislation like this should pass to ban child marriages on the books. I just want people to know that this would not do much to stop the practice in the majority of cases.
It is true that it would reduce this abuse to some degree. Or at the very least give the groomed children more time to develop and realize they are being abused. It would be a good step.
However, the majority of these marriage arrangements are already in place in these communities long before they go “on the books”. It is usually extremely patriarchal religious communities where women and girls are not only subject to usual patriarchal structures of our society, but to a form of oppression, different from but on the same level as an apartheid state.
These communities definitely stay protected in the rare instances of any form of law enforcement by these types of laws. But, it is on the level of black people “technically” being allowed to vote in the Jim Crow south. Getting rid of a law like this will not change to the structures of enforcement or the communities that allow these abuses to happen today. The Jim Crow south needed federal law enforcement to enforce its abolishment. That’s why I make the comparison. The local law enforcement are literally the people that uphold the patriarchal structures and abuse to begin with.
Unfortunately, the real solution to these issues is not what anyone wants to hear. These communities need to be broken apart, they need fundamental reeducation, and the children of these communities need to be separated from the abusers. This often means separating children from their mothers; as the women in this society are both victims and abusers.
The adults need to be subject to mental health care and reeducation to give them the opportunity to show they can function outside of the abusive community they were born into.
These are communities built to abuse and oppress children and women. They are Nazi like societies that should be treated as such.
We have a long way to go when we can’t even get a simple law like this passed. And it’s really depressing.
There is a reason why these marriages are still allowed even in states like CA. They use the reasoning of, “it’s going to happen anyway, so we need to be aware of it so we can provide support systems and services.”
as above so below giving devils control
