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cbsnews.com/amp/news/child… most, if not all, States tolerate this form of child abuse. Yes, it is child abuse to allow a child to marry another child or worse, marry an adult. This is palpable exploitation of our most vulnerable members of our society’s. /2
It’s sickening. So, from a legal perspective, how do we attack this? My thought is in a similar fashion as was used in attacking segregation. 14th amendment Equal Protection Clause applies to minors. It was used in Brown v Board of Education to overturn Plessy v Ferguson /3
separate but equal canard. You cannot be separate yet equal. Anyhow, the raw language of the 14th amendments equal protection clause is as follows: /4
Equal Protection Clause. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment provides that a state may not “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” ... This forms the basis for gay rights, racial and gender equality, equality in pay and /5
so forth. Now the question is, without Congressional statutory action, how do we get this barbaric practice outlawed? Answer: We need test cases before SCOTUS. As reported in this article independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… over 200K child marriages were ‘performed in the US /6
over the last 15 years. We need either adults who were forced into these marriages as children or a parent of these children to challenge the validity of these marriages under the 1st and 14th amendments. Suit needs to be initiated in Federal District Court. I believe that /7
we follow a similar path that other 14th amendment Equal Protection cases, we can set judicial precedent and have outlawed this bane threatening our children. /end.
