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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3190492" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>No argument, that's why it's called statutory rape.  The minor may have consented to have sex, but in the eyes of the law she's too young to give consent, the onus is upon the adult.  However the law does allow minors to enter a marriage contract with legal adults if permission to do so is granted by parents, or a circuit court judge, or both in some States.  Thus a minor's consent is valid under a marriage contract.  Some would like to invalidate that in order to bolster their argument attacking Moore.  That a girl that age is always molested, that it's pedophilia.  Not according to the States.</p></blockquote><p></p>