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I think this can be interpreted as "young people will inevitably get pregnant", not "young people should get pregnant".
Still wrongheaded and cringeworthy, but maybe not as monstrous as it initially looked.
No. That’s even worse.
They’re arguing that children should get married to provide for kids.
Reality: the only people that can afford to support not one but two children…. Are creepy old men.
The argument is that because kids might get preggo, they should be allowed to marry them and make them preggo
That’s fucked up.
I'm not sure he cares if anyone provides for them. Like many in the GOP, he seems to only care about preventing abortions without any thought to what happens next.
He doesn’t.
But he’s not just about preventing abortions.
They’re pedos.
Read as:
Dude's literally complaining that children getting abortions is easier than getting children married. No, that sounds exactly as ghoulish and monstrous as it appeared.
It originally appeared far worse to me, like the ravings of a pedophile.
As it should, given that I have never heard ‘ripe’ used by anyone but pedos.
In my mind there is no generous interpretation of his words as there is a paragraph which makes his statement worse in my opinion.
He wants marriage to 16 year olds to be legal; I don’t believe this is a good thing, especially if he also then argued for parental consent for marriages to adult men. It’s a huge red flag to me, personally.
Yeah but he skipped adoption and the idea that parents can continue to support their daughter even if she's not a virgin. Teens getting married because one of them got pregnant is not the first thing I want people to think of. A teen marrying her statutory rapist should be even farther down the list.