Most ordinary people know that child marriages are wrong. This should go without explanation. However, in most states, child marriages are legal, and the first people to avail themselves of that law claim to share my values, yet don't share my sexual purity values. Sex with children will never be acceptable. Child marriage, in most states, is the most serious of forms of lawful sexual abuse.
Here in Pennsylvania, child marriages are now banned. Act 18 of 2020 amended the Domestic Relations Code of Pennsylvania by deleting provisions allowing for child marriages. Before that, child marriages were legal regardless of age, with different degrees of "protection" for children. Now, all children are protected from child marriage.
Why is child marriage wrong? The Greek root word denoting sexual offenses is πορνεία (Latin: porneia) and lifts up all of the sex crime laws under the Law of Moses. One of those laws was that children could not be married until they reach the age of majority. The age of majority was different in Ancient Israel, but those ages are nowhere stated in the Bible. Thus, the tradition is to only allow marriages at the age of majority, wherever it is. In the United States, it is 18, and seeking to change the definition of childhood for self-serving purposes is adult sexual entitlement.
Sex with children will never be acceptable, even if it is accepted under the law of the land! Let the depraved and decadent, defiled sex offenders of children will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let then burn in torrents of fire! Repent!
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