Honestly I don't understand how they are still legal in most of the world

Because it never was about children, they're just an excuse.

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*an excuse to harm people who don’t think like them.

Their olive branches turned to spears.

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- They were never olive branches. They were grasping claws to try and make you act like them, not to understand a different perspective. Once they realized they couldn't pull more people over, the spears come out. It's what a desperate loser does when they become the minority: Try to restore majority control, even if that means literally changing the numbers of people who count.
  
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Right. It's about forcing the types of people the backwards of society are most uncomfortable with into the shadows, in the name of "saving children," the same children they don't give two shits about

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It bothers me how many different ways republicans are hypocrites, and yet none of them give a damn.

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Drag queens teach people and especially kids how to look beyond initial appearances when forming judgments and reactions. This devastates the GOP.

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There is no logic behind it. We do ourselves a disservice by treating their warped morality as anything other than bigotry that should be squelched.

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Because they think that if the kid gets pregnant they should get married. Meanwhile they fear that the child may be “corrupted”. They see marriage as holy or normal even if it happens too soon.

Source: have dated a former underage bride

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Also forcing children to give birth without medical assistance(meaning abortion)

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Melanie used logic. That was Melanie's first mistake.

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Girls must be taught to be objectified and controlled. Not learn to be inclusive or to think for themselves from books.

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Its not about protecting children from abuse and manipulation, its about protecting children from growing up into intelligent, compassionate people who won't vote red.

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my sister once did one of the [hopefully] non-pedophile ones. it was so weird and unpleasant and frivolous and strange at every stage -- a hybrid of awful stage mothers / dance mothers / cheerleading mothers plus very very insidious and insane body shaming

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Cunningham's law? I'll bite.

TLDR: Some American Christians don't practice what they preach. Unfortunately they're the ones with power / wealth.

he will smite ... if they disrespect their parents ...

"For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. "

Jesus H. Christ, Matthew 10:35-37

God said to rape, fuck, abuse the children

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Jesus H. Christ, Matthew 18:5-6

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- It's not like modern American "Christians"(evangelical in particular) would give Jesus the time of fucking day. They'd call him a simp soyboi lib'rul
  
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- You're assuming that modern religious orthodoxy correlates their views and behavior to progressive cherry picked passages from their texts.
  
  While Jesus does say those things, modern conservative religious figures bring up "spoil the rod spoil the child" from the OT to rationalize and justify their own world view.
  
  For example, would you argue that the conservative Judaism in Israel today is likely to support eradication of any political division or disenfranchisement between Palestinians and Israelis given the following in the Torah:
  
  When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
  
  Leviticus 19:33-34 (similar statement in Deuteronomy 10:19)
  
  No, of course not. They are going to pick and choose from things like the ahistorical book of Joshua's divine entitlement to seize territory from Canaanites (for which there's zero evidence of it having even happened) to justify what they want to justify while ignoring passages that would force them to behave differently from how they would want to.
  
  The tenets of a current religious movement is only tenuously connected to earlier source material and frequently involves multiple layers of reinterpretation and selective sourcing.
  
  There's even evidence that parts of the New Testament were literally rewritten to reverse inconvenient teachings of a historical Jesus, such as how at the last supper in Luke he reversed the prohibition on carrying a purse when ministering (making monetary collections impossible) - found unanimously across the Synoptics. That passage isn't found in Marcion's version of Luke, which may be the earliest extant form of it, but it is very convenient to set up things like the older couple struck dead for not giving Peter all their money in Acts 5.
  
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- "only the new testament counts, the first half of the book is old news"
  
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  also those passages are extremely weak prohibitions of child abuse
  
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Reading transfers knowledge and in their handmaid's tales fantasies ~~human incubators~~ women don't need something so distracting

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Are those all pro-slave states too?

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Not WV. They spilt from VA over the civil war.

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It was about homosexuality only.

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Cause a-dig-dig-diddlin kids is a-ok as long as you do it a straight way like God intended.

Edit:Please may nobody quote this comment out of context.

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Because Tim Poole is just as much of an alt-tight sleezebag as the rest of the alt-right conservatives. He's such a fucking fReEtHiNkEr. Tim Poole can eat all of the bags of dicks. All of them.

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- Well, we should probably save a couple bags, there's a lot more shitty people out there. I'll agree that he can eat MOST of the bags of dicks
  
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Because Republicans don't like sloppy seconds.

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Nice. For once Louisiana isn't on a bad list

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I know right, as an Ohioan I’m happy it’s not on the list, but I’d like to be more than a law away

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This isnt even true though.... even these states have marriage laws consistent with like the rest of the western world.

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https://www.humanium.org/en/child-marriage-in-the-u-s-an-unbelievable-reality-2/

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- Also, a more recent article Here
  
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They can all be bad

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Even if by hypothesis this was true, why are they hard-campaigning on drag shows and absolutely ignoring pageants? They should definitely go after both if they “cared about the children”.

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All three of those cases of adults demanding access to and influence over children are shitty.

If you think drag queen story time is good would you grant equal access to republican senator story hour or violent anarchist story hour or Hamas paraglider pilot story hour or convicted serial killer story hour?

Or are you prepared to admit that content and context matters?

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- Ooh that’s a deliberate misinterpretation. 🤔
  
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The last Republican story hour really didn't end well

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- MY. FUCKING. PET. GOAT.
  
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- “Sir, men in dresses are demanding an audience of children to press their agenda on them.”
  
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You are so far from reality that I’m not sure you could find your way back if you wanted to.

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- If you feel better thinking that then I hope you find the comfort you need there.
  
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Bro, my kids literally can't drive. If I don't want them to go to senator story hour, I wouldn't take them to senator story hour.

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- Truthfully I don’t give even 1/3 of a fuck what scumbags you juggalo idiots give access to your children, but just don’t be aw shucks palms up disingenuous about the influence the scumbags you choose have.
  
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- Keep calling everything fascism I think there might be a little further you can devalue that term with a few more wolf cries.
  
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