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.
Islam at it’s best
LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE.
Christian Judea principal is the bill of rights foundation . Islam is a governance through religion and there fore is not protected. We divided church and state . Islam is the church ,state , judge, juror and executioner nothing violates our bill of rights more than religious Inquisition into our lives and this religious tyranny will not be accepted by we the people who fought the tyrant’s of the Vatican ,crown and parliamentary interest. We will resist your academic perversion and distortion of our herrirtage so long as we revolutionary decendants possess the life good gave us we will also maintain it’s liberties.
asshole
What about the Oregon bakery? Their Religious traditions don’t mean anything. DOUBLE STANDARDS.
This is America and we follow the laws we have and that were made to protect citizens.
The age of consent is 17yrs, how is this not rape, child abuse and pedophilia?
this is wrong
America is losing its way.
Whatever stupid you’re offending me