Bothered2JoinFinally

Let's run through the time line of that bill (https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0233). January 2021 it is introduced with language that literally removed the age limit and was set on to be heard after summer which is apparently usually a death sentence. A trash bill gets left in obscurity. January of 2022, it gains more sponsors; I assume because he's talking to other legislators about the amendment he's made that literally scraps and redoes the whole bill. In March, he gets amendment SA0709 added which removes literally everything below "AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68, relative to marriage." and replaces it with a lot of common law second rate marriage stuff. March 23rd is when the clip pointing out that it doesn't have an explicit age minimum occurs. The website I provided has the bill mentioned in a committee meeting on the 30th, what happened on this day with the bill? Nothing. It was a scheduling error. On April 6th, an amendment is introduced adding an explicit age minimum, although it is tied to the Tennessee Age of Majority Law.

The statement that it should be covered by contract minimum ages is true, but an odd choice to rely on. Should the amendments have been entered as a separate bill and scrap the original entirely? I think so, but I don't know how much more of a hassle that would have been. Was it fixed? The original horrendous version seems to have been done without public prompting afaik. As far as lacking a minimum age requirement, it was amended at the first opportunity. He thought implicit was good enough, found he was wrong, and rectified it. Also where is your evidence that republicans or conservatives support child marriage? You pointed to a mistake that was promptly corrected and used that to misrepresent a large group of people. As a final note, I guess you did point to child brides and polygyny. The answer is that there is an assumption of child brides being illegal, and they don't tend to make mountains out of every criminal; point to a child bride whose husband is free in a state that a republican lives in, and I would expect them to take issue with it. As for polygyny, I think polygamy is a bad choice, but I don't want a nanny state that makes things illegal because they might end up hurting the feelings of those making the choices.