Republicans kill McCollum’s anti-child marriage bill

Hey Betty, here’s a reason your stupid bill shouldn’t have passed – it’s none of your bleeping business what happens in other countries. You know, the same argument you used to oppose ousting Saddam?

Dennis must be a paid hack. Even for him, that’s a helluva stretch to defend the indefensible.

Can we all just agree to ignore Dennis from now on? This really getting tiresome.

If Dennis is a “paid” hack, he’s overpriced. It doesn’t matter how much he’s getting, it’s too much.

I doubt that there was any principal behind the Republican defeat of the bill. It wasn’t about abortion, it wasn’t about isolationism, it was solely about not letting a Democrat pass a bill. It is beyond sad to think that this petty sort of sniping would serve to defeat something that should have been a no-brainer.

dennis is a troll.

I was very surprised when a few Rep actually broke rank and voted for the repeal of DADT. I really, really didn’t expect that. One has to wonder what the fallout for them will be from within the Rep.party. I can’t imagine there won’t be something. Maybe this vote was a message to everyone about who’s really in charge here. In other words, if we (Rep) don’t sponsor it, it ain’t going anywhere.

Lesson learned! If you’re a pre-born girl, you’re worthy of protection. If you’re a post-born girl facing a life of rape and abuse (aka “child marriage”), you’re out of luck. Thanks for the reminder, Paulsen, Bachmann, et al.

If you’re talking about American kids, you’d have a point.

Betty should believe it’s her role to write laws for other countries when she’s elected to the congress of those other countries.

Part of what the bill would do is find out how much child marriage is going on in countries that receive U.S. aid. Seems like a fair request to me; you can argue over the value of that aid, but if countries are receiving it already, seems like fair game to leverage it to help protect girls from being forced into marriages.

Hmm:

I have no opinion as to whether McCollum was doing as some of the GOP claim and trying to get abortions funded by backhanded means. In order to find that out, I’d have to read the actual text of the entire bill, and I’m not sure I’m willing to do that, nor have I had time as I only read about this 20 minutes ago. So I’m not sure what she means by “child marriage”, though I did read the statement on her website, where she mentioned adolescent fifteen year olds as “children’.

Assuming, however, that the Republicans are full of hot air (as they often are)I suppose I can support this provided we aren’t trying to meddle in two things:

A. Child marriages that aren’t consummated between two children.Gandhi and his wife got married when she was 8 and I think he was 12. It’s my understanding that they didn’t have sex for quite some time.
B. “Child” marriages involving girls 14 years old or older. Some US states still allow that with parent approval, and it’s not our business to be pushing our rather whacky and all over the place age of consent laws for teens on the rest of the world.

As for the rest, I love how politicians in our “patriarchal” society know which sex to alwys try to rescue. There are some 8 year old boys being forcibly impressed into warlord armies in parts of Africa who could probably use some help, but they are just evil boys, so no one gives a crap.

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domestic violence costs alone!

The US ranks right up their with Iran, Somalia, and 5 other countries. And although we have laws on age limits of marriage and work for children, we do not have limits for the number of times a person can violate another human being, we do not have limits on the sex trade – severe limits – America continues to allow strip clubs to be built near military bases, outside airports, and international gateways. The portrayal of women in america is neandrathal and patriarchal based.

Until gender equality is recognized, ratified and the right wing idiots quit coming up with scare tactics like abortion funding, shared bathrooms, woman becoming de-feminized, this nation will continue in its boggy decent.

I have to agree with Dennis. The absolute last thing we should be doing is making laws about the culture in other countries. I would assume next on her agenda is “Dogs are Friends, Not Food Bill” followed by “The African Tribal Hut Carbon Monoxide Detector Mandate”. Butt out, Betty.

So what you’re saying is, Betty’s time would have been better spent writing legislation to ban strip clubs here in America instead of how old a girl must be to get married in Somalia.

Dennis, you really need to get a life

Question for Dennis “the hack”: If we should stay out of the business of another country, why do republicans suport the illegal wars??

By who’s jurisdiction are the wars illegal?

Certainly not the U.S. congress’ who passed The Iraq Resolution or the Iraq War Resolution (formally the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002,[1] Pub.L. 107-243, 116 Stat. 1498, enacted October 16, 2002, H.J.Res. 114) is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No: 107-243, authorizing the Iraq War.

And certainly not the UN’s which unanimously passed UN resolution 1441 which stated that Iraq was in material breach of the ceasefire terms presented under the terms of Resolution 687. Iraq’s breaches related not only to weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but also the known construction of prohibited types of missiles, the purchase and import of prohibited armaments, and the continuing refusal of Iraq to compensate Kuwait for the widespread looting conducted by its troops during the 1991 invasion and occupation.

So which illegal wars are you referring to?

If we give financial support any way to these countries that support child marriage, then we should also have the right to write a bill banning child marriage. There was a TV documentary in which shows that men in these countries marry children as young as 8 years old and promise, but never really do, not to consumate the marriage. To me that is rape. A child’s body is not fully developed, and these children suffer tremendously and even die giving birth at such early age. So, if the money is spent on abortions, so what, if it helps the little girls grow up to be a normal functioning adults?