Grooming you say? This Repug state senator thinks 12 year old children should marry.
And we all know it would not be two children.
It would be a 12 year old little girl forced to marry her 30 year old rapist by religious extremist parents.
And we all know it.
Missouri is a redneck, rural state for the most part, same as Iowa, where I live. I'm never surprised when I see misogynist, patriarchal assholes like this pop up supporting policies like this. And yes, I did read his backstory about the 12 yo girl who married another equally young and unqualified boy who knocked her up, and I still say, that even marriages between two young children should not be allowed, if for no other reason than to protect their innocent offspring from the horrendous parenting that would almost always occur with two children trying to raise another child...
Who are the pedophiles?
Apparently, they are mainly in the Repub Party, because it seems to embrace them...