I don’t get why a such law took so long, but late is better than never.

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      Need to do something for stuff like inheritance and visitation rights that’s currently coupled (pun intended) to marriage.

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        National Emergency Contact Database. Sign a piece of paper together to make each other emergency contacts in the eyes of the govt. have as many as you’d like!

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        Well in my ideal view we would abolish the state and abolish capitalism, so those things aren’t too much of an issue.

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          That would solve many problems, but stuff like “Who gets to visit you in the hospital?” and “who gets your personal belongings when you expire?” might need some thought. There are likely easy to solve, but still require some thought.

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            A will amd Power of Attorney do those without marriage. I’ve been with my partner for 15 years, unmarried, and haven’t had a problem with it yet.

            I was in a car accident and spent two weeks unconcious in the ICU, so its not like its untested either.

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              True but a will and power of attourney are also more complicated and expensive to get

              Cmopared to standard marriage, are they any better or just extra steps

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      I’m thinking the tipping point has been reached, the pendulum is now moving away from conservatism, and we’ll see little upsets like this as rural states begin to shift back. Missouri is facing a hell of a medicaid cut which they can’t afford, that may ripple for a while.

      Unfortunately they have short memory spans but eventually they’ll flip for a generation, like the New Deal era. People will just give up on MAGA and go the other way.

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    Republican men are probably throwing a fit that they won’t be able to legally groom and rape children for “family values” anymore

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    The year is 2025…

    And America is still this ass backwards.

    Least some good news for once.

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      Most US states allow it with parental consent.

      In theory it’s a holdover from times when age based consent was crazy liberal ideology, which for most of the red states means like 1990.

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      Watch the Republicans set their hair on fire in response while introducing legislation to allow more child workers as well.

      The party of family values.

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      It was 16 but only with parental consent and only with a marriage partner 21 or younger.

      16 with parental consent is quite common. Mississippi I think is 15. Some allow marriage younger than this (some have effectively no minimum age), but with the requirement for consent to also be sought through the courts.

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      In many it used to be something like with parental permission. Basically child trafficking enshrined in law.

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        Human trafficking was the foundation of our great nation. Hell, there’s still a lively Mail Order Bride market out of the States.

        We can’t stop. We won’t stop.

        I’ll be curious to see if this law survives contact with the courts. Perhaps we’ll even see destination weddings happening on the other side of the Arkansas border.

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          Dammit man, this hits close to home. I’m from Missouri and we used to talk shit on Arkansans all the time. Now I’ve lived in Arkansas for over a decade and can confirm… there are some sketchy parts. Lol, I need to escape.

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            Well, you can always come down and hang with me in Texas. nervous laughter

            scrambling to hide from the Abbott gestapo patrol

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            I used to live in Louisiana. Never felt uncomfortable there but the few times I went into Mississippi or Alabama terrified me. You’re looking around at swamp land as far as the eye can see and realize that it would not be hard to hide a body.