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https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/12/sen-mike-moon-reiterates-support-for-12-year-olds-right-to-marry-missouri-senate/70107573007/
During debate Tuesday on a bill banning gender-affirming
care for transgender minors, Missouri State Senator Mike
Moon suggested children as young as 12 should have the
right to marry with parental permission.
"Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I
do. And guess what? They're still married," Moon said in
response to questioning by Democratic state Representative
Peter Merideth. A clip of the interaction has garnered
attention on social media.
A southwest Missouri Republican from Ash Grove, Moon's
support of child marriage in some instances has been long
documented. In 2018 Missouri passed a law raising the
marriage age in the state from 15 to 16 and requiring
parental permission for older teenagers to marry. Moon
opposed the bill at the time — citing the same anecdote
of a couple he met in college who had married one another
at age 12.
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