A new bill in the Tennessee state House whose Republican sponsor, state House Rep Tom Leatherwood says it’s aimed at “establishing an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law,” advanced out of committee this week over the objections of Democrats who pointed out that there’s no minimum age requirement in the bill’s language, WJHL reports.
Leatherwood himself acknowledged this, saying “There is not an explicit age limit,” without actually doing anything to amend the bill to, you know, make sure it was explicit. The current Tennessee state minimum marriage age is 17, and would totally stay that way as long as the couples are gay. Only heterosexual couples can ignore the minimum age in their “conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage”-style marriage if this bill is passed and signed into law.
But yeah, it’s the gays and lesbians who are the “groomers.” Otherwise a legalized path to sexual abuse of minors inside the holy bounds of matrimony is totally acceptable in MAGA Land.