Louisiana nixes bill to set minimum age for marriage

[Judi Lynn]

Posted Jun 2, 9:32 PM
By The Associated Press

Lawmakers in the Louisiana House on Sunday refused to set a minimum age to marry in the state, an idea that drew strong opposition from the chamber’s conservatives.

The Senate crafted a bill by Sen. Yvonne Dorsey Colomb, a Baton Rouge Democrat, that would bar anyone under 16 years old from being able to marry in Louisiana, with those who are 16 years old or 17 years old unable to marry someone who is more than four years older than they are.

The House refused that idea, instead rewriting the legislation to continue requiring parental consent for anyone under 18 to marry. A judicial review process would be required before anyone under 16 years old could get married.

The House voted 66-28 for the rewritten version, with several supporters of a strict minimum age backing the bill, hoping they can rework it in the final days of a session that must end Thursday. They call a minimum age a child protection measure that keeps teenagers from marrying sexual predators, citing marriages of teenagers to people decades older.

More:
https://www.nola.com/politics/2019/06/louisiana-nixes-bill-to-set-minimum-age-for-marriage.html

[TheBlackAdder]

1. As Maxwell Smart would say, "Ahh, it's the Old Enough to Pee, Old Enough for Me State!"

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Perhaps that motto should go on their license plates!

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[TheBlackAdder]

2. New at the Louisiana MVC

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[TexasBushwhacker]

3. There are plenty of small towns in the South

Where young women are considered old maids if they aren't married with a baby in their arms by the time they are 16.

[MineralMan]

4. "It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well."

"It goes to show you never can tell..."