States' rights...

God damn it! Now we have to wait 6 years!

Good, I was hoping they'd clear the way for me and my MySpace teeny-biatch to get hitched...

The scariest thing is they had to set it up to 15.

After a pregnant 14-year-old from Nebraska drove to Kansas last year to marry her 22-year-old boyfriend, now serving time for having sex with the minor, Kansas lawmakers decided it was time the set a minimum marriage age.

....I don't even know where to start with this.

I'd marry it.

Wait... wasn't there that guy who go thrown in jail last year for statutory rape because his wife was 15, and they had been married when they lived in a different state or something? There was a FARK thread about it (of course).

If so... what happens to him?

minium!

Sweet, now teachers can marry their students sooner.

Oh Kansas, I get the feeling you're not in Kansas any more.

/or something...

Oh, duh. I should have RTFA.

Well it's one way to deal with abstinance programs in schools...

Don't wait for marriage, GET married!

The return of child marriage should obviously start among the most civilized :)

Though it might sound fun for teens, it'd be a complete disaster to marry that early. Think about how many late 20-early 30 guys n gals are still worried about getting married...

How many times do we have to ask for a KANSAS TAG?

In Texas, you go over the border to Oklahoma, buy a fishing license, and present that at the courthouse. Being a State document, it is legal.

Once you are married, that is called a "fait accompli" and it is quite a fathermucker to undo. Takes a fleet of lawyers and a lot of money.

Especially, if her dad goes to all that trouble to get it annulled, and as soon as he does, you take her back across the border to marry her all over again.

Ain't been there, ain't done that, wouldn't advise you to do it either but what the hell, I ain't your father.

personally i tried to add "... now how are we going to get intelligent design passed in the future?" but someone beat me to posting this :(

/cut cut cut

Headline needs a spell check done on it.

They're just trying to protect traditional marriage (at least by Kansas' definition).

You can marry them at 14 in India, even if you rape them at knifepoint, assuming your wife lets you. If she doesn't, all bets are off.

Teach the controversy!

/wait, what kind of Kansas thread is this again?

YEEEEEHAAAAAAAW!!!!

Well...


Carry on, my wayward son.

How many times do we have to ask for a KANSAS TAG?

Not mine, but lovely:

yyrkoon asked:
How many times do we have to ask for a KANSAS TAG?

Isn't all of Kansas covered with the "Piece of Jailbait ASININE" tag?

/Just sayin'
/ /OFF
/
/Dammit, I said "/OFF"!
\
\Damn skippy...

My mom got married in Kansas as a young teen becuase that was a way to get away from her parents earlier.

She describes the marriage like this: "The first year was fantastic... and then he got back from Vietnam."

/not getting married ever

What if she only looks 14 in the shower?

/oh the sweet flames of hell beckon

What, no "spiffy" tag?

/Kidding

yyrkoon

As many times as we have to ask for a TEXAS tag, a TENNISSEE tag, an ALABAMA tag, etc, etc

Who wrote this headline? Some 15 yr. old?

The age of consent here in Kansas is 16.

That's THREE TIMES their minimum wage

I would just like to take a moment and complement Ed Grubermann on his name.

-- I do not feel Ed Grubermann is wholly wrong.

- What do you mean?

-- I want to boot some head, too.

/Kee Lo Nee, the Great Teacher, approves

Having financial problems? Bank about to foreclose? If you live in Kansas and have a cute teenage daughter, I have a solution...

Kansas sets minium marriage age to 15

that's hot.

That's right carmody. Can't wait to go back for my class reunion this summer.

/Hey little girl
/Want a piece of candy?

GIS "Kansas 15"

Yeh, that makes sense. You can get married at 15 but no sex til you're 16.

I hereby officially submit my request for a Kansas tag.

Seriously. A state where people want to plow under a century of science education and teach creationism in the public schools, and now they want to pimp out their teenage girls as child brides. This place must be scary.

It should be age 30...everywhere.

Dorothy surrenders

If child brides are outlawed, only outlaws Mormons will have child brides

The article says a 15-year-old can get married if a court rules it's in their best interest.

I think it's a trick. If a judge rules that it's in a 15-year-old's best interest to get married they know to impeach the judge.

/unless anyone can think of an instance where that would be the best course of action?

This reminded me of an ill-informed O'Reilly screed from 2004, which touched on this issue in one of his War on Christmas hallucinations.

It has happened in Canada. Once a traditional religious country, Canada has become like Holland in its embrace of the secular movement.... The fall of religion in Canada has corresponded to a change in public policy. Unlike Americans, Canadians have legalized gay marriage and any kind of abortion. Also, the age of consent for sex up north is just 14 years old. Can you imagine American adults being allowed to fool around with children that age? I can't.

Will O'Reilly lambaste Kansas for being a haven of liberalism, just like Canada has been since it made the age of consent 14 in, uh, 1892?

Damnit, Kansas!

Why the fark would an adult want to marry a farking teenager? It's annoying enough to be behind them in line at the mall.

Bob saget!

And sheep in Kansas breath a sigh of relief...

Wait til sis herrs the good newrs!

What are you talking about, Ant?! Teenagers are deep and have thoughts and...something, with ..yeah!

I still remember when I was a teenager and thought every little farking thing was the end of the world and a personal attack on me. Damn hormones. I'm really, really glad that is over. We just need to round all the teenagers up, put them in a single state somewhere like California, and not let them out until they become rational again.

I had a friend who got married in Tennessee when she was 14 or 15.

Her high school made her get her husband's signature on her report cards.

Obama Bin Bin: You can marry them at 14 in India, even if you rape them at knifepoint, assuming your wife lets you. If she doesn't, all bets are off.


You suck. Ass. Through plastic straws.

Child marriage, while legal in India, doesn't automatically include consummation. The married couple is kept apart until they finish school(which is held to a much higher standard than in US, fifth grade students studying chemistry and civics on a 10th grade level) or turn 18, whichever is later. This is done mostly to secure wealth and bloodlines, rather than sex. Some of the more barbaric and dirt-poor regions which can't truly be considered Indian (with different customs and such) may do such despicable behavior, but if caught they are more severely punished than the equivalent crime here.

Learn your subject first, before blathering so.

Donald_McRonald

They're just trying to protect traditional marriage (at least by Kansas' definition).

Traditionally women have gotten married much younger. So should they set a maximum age before the state classifies you as an old maid?

So, if a pair of 15-year-olds get hitched, they're going to need someplace to live. Plus, I'm sure they'll want to practice contraception for several years before trying to have kids. Therefore, I think they should get a condom-minium.

/ba-dum ssshhhh
//try the veal

Judan

When the 15-year-olds famly members or fiends are all dead...or somthing like that.

/idk

So is this the "traditional" definition of marriage so many people are trying to defend against those evil gays?

/farking weirdo's

Sandwyrm

Obama was refering to a previous article "Man prevented from marrying 14-year-old..." Maybe he wasn't the only one who should learn his subject.

Wait... wasn't there that guy who go thrown in jail last year for statutory rape because his wife was 15...

This article is about the aforementioned Nebraska 14 year-old. She was 15 when he got sent to PMITAP

"If there's grass on the infield... play ball!"

/window seat, please

TENNISSEE tag

There are actually Americans, in higher education no less, who are unable to spell states in their own country.

Although I just looked up Hollins University, and it seems to be in Virginia.. there needs to be a hypocrite tag.

MacSlacker: "If there's grass on the infield... play ball!"

... otherwise, play in the mud?

Sandwyrm

Settle down, Nancyvajarataipalupta.

Mildly offtopic, but...

Is it just me but does it strike anyone as wrong that kids, who have extremely limited legal rights due to status as minors and little choice in where they live can be legally married off with the consent of their parents, who incidentally control much of their legal rights, accommodation, and means of survival?

I seriously hope there is some form of no-fault marriage annulment available to them some time after they turn 18 in case they, for example, were pressured into it in the first place.

I know Farkers from every state in the union think their home state deserves its own tag, but I'm starting to think Kansas really should have one.

/and all I've ever done is fly over the place

and to think, I moved here voluntarily. Lawrence, Douglas county, is the only sane place in Kansas, as far as I can tell. The rest of this state is farked up.

No pics of "What's the matter with Kansas?"

Were yo git ptchers ob my brudders?

Why on Earth would you let it be legal for someone to get married to someone who they can't have sex with legally?

That makes no sense.

Trance354: and to think, I moved here voluntarily. Lawrence, Douglas county, is the only sane place in Kansas, as far as I can tell. The rest of this state is farked up.

Yeah, and to think the people in that town have the nerve to call it the University of Kansas.

Ah, home of family values...

....I don't even know where to start with this.

What? Something wrong with that? They're both well past puberty. Nature says it's A-OK.

It's legal for a 14 year old to drive?

Dorothy is gonna need some lubricant!

Sebelius is a tard.

She needs a good flogging

"Trance354: and to think, I moved here voluntarily. Lawrence, Douglas county, is the only sane place in Kansas, as far as I can tell. The rest of this state is farked up."

haha Lawrence sux teh cawk too! Quit thinking the little hole you live in doesn't apply to the mass of suckitude.

/lives in Topeka
//hates it
///forgot how to tag
////FARK!

Lawrence sucks. Trustafarians and entitled faux-jaded poseurs everywhere.



Wichita is where it's at.

carmody: Lawrence sucks. Trustafarians and entitled faux-jaded poseurs everywhere.

This made me lol.