Georgia lets children marry as long as the girl is pregnant !

This is absolutely amazing. . .and it points out once again that all this hysteria about needing constitutional amendments to "protect" marriage from the gays must be designed to encourage it among children!!



Georgia, Where Gays Can't Wed But Children Can
by Greg Bluestein, Associated Press

Posted: November 15, 2005 9:00 pm ET


(Atlanta, Georgia) Ever since her 13-year-old niece wed a 14-year-old boy last year, Sharon Cline has sent lawmakers a slew of letters begging them to change a Georgia law that allows children of any age to marry -- and without parental consent -- as long as the bride-to-be is pregnant.

"Some of the lawmakers just didn't believe this could happen," said Cline, who lives in Weston, Fla. "It was very frustrating."

They're believers now.

Lisa Lynnette Clark, 37, was charged last week in Gainesville with child molestation for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old friend of her teenage son. Just days before her arrest, she wed the boy under a Georgia law that allows pregnant couples to marry regardless of age and without consent.

Disturbed by the child groom, Georgia lawmakers may soon debate changing a law that many didn't know even existed. Geared toward preventing out-of-wedlock births, the law dates back to at least the early 1960s.

"I never knew it was in the code until this morning," Jerry Keen, the state's House Majority Leader, said Tuesday. "Our legislative counsel -- the lawyers who draft the laws -- even had to look it up."

Still, Keen and other leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature stopped short of endorsing a change to the state's marital requirements.

"It's very difficult to govern by exception. You have to govern by rule," said Keen, who is from St. Simons.

Instead, Keen and Senate Majority Leader Tommie Williams said the state's GOP lawmakers will focus on passing stricter penalties for those convicted of child molestation. Keen said the legislation would require convicts to spend at least 25 years in prison and wear an electronic tracking device within the state's borders after their release.

Democratic lawmakers, recently in the minority after more than a century in power, may hope a proposal to change the marriage standards will drive a wedge in the GOP majority.


http://365gay.com/Newscon05/11/111505georgia.htm

a recipe for disaster. What the (expletive deleted) are these people thinking? What do they think with?

Not much wonder that state feels like a foreign country.

The issue is not, "should we address 13 year olds getting pregnant" but rather, "as long as she's married, all is fine." Oh yes, this is legislation that we need.

The corollary to this among the fundies is, "we don't care that a 13 year is pregnant, at least she didn't get an abortion."

:banghead:

Gee, they're in love and want to get married, but the parents dont approve. Lets get pregnant and we can do what we want!