As the issue of child marriage gains more attention, New Jersey legislators decided to do something about it and passed a bill that would prohibit marriage of any children under age 18.
Governor Chris Christie was handed the opportunity to make New Jersey the first state to officially ban child marriage without exception.
Nancy Munoz, the bill’s main sponsor, is a Republican assemblywoman from Union. She introduced the bill after hearing testimony in committee hearings about children being forced into marriage “for religious reasons.”
Under current New Jersey law, children under age 16 can be legally married with parental consent and approval from a sympathetic judge.
Find out what action Christie decided to take and why on the next page.
You are forgetting this is still our country and you have to live by our rules.
How does anyone get away with this. If a man has sex with a under age girl he goes to jail and has to register as a sex offender. If a woman has sex with a under age boy the same thing happens. If either one of these cases went to court could they just say it’s part of my religious belief and the court has to turn them loose. Why would Muslims have different rights than anyone else.
Another lib in Republican suit such a lowlife
You are pathetic Christie. You think
It’s ok for kids to be married to old men. Must be something wrong with you.
It violates God, does that bother you?
You think
You are as bad as the muslims.
Asshat
Let’s see now – it’s okay to stop Mormons from having multiple wives and Christians from doing just about everything that is important to them but we won’t stop some of the most Satanic people on the face of the earth?
Time to replace christie