this is the most southern fucking thing ive ever seen
If it’s a “southern fucking thing” to respect and pray for those risking their lives to serve and protect our great country… I’ll proudly tell you I’m fucking southern over and over (which I’d do anyway).
im sure the prayers of a 40something-year-old woman running a porn blog will be of great comfort to those soldiers as they commit war crimes
i am politely escorted out of the establishment as i shovel plastic soldiers into my mouth
When Sherry Johnson was eleven, she found one day that she’s gonna marry a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. She became pregnant and in order to avoid investigation and criminal case, her family and church officials decided to make the girl a legal wife of this monster.
“My mom asked me if I wanted to get married, and I said, ‘I don’t know, what is marriage, how do I act like a wife?’” Johnson remembers today, many years later. “She said, ‘Well, I guess you’re just going to get married.’”
However, her case is one of thousand cases of child marriage. According to statistics, children 16 and under are still being married in Florida at a rate of one every few days.
Johnson and her family also attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. One girl said when she was 10 she was raped by both a minister and a parishioner and later gave birth to a daughter. There were all documents confirming her and her child’s age, but still, the judge approved the marriage to end the rape investigation, telling her,
“What we want is for you to get married.”
And nevertheless, America prefers to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, like in Syria, calling it “defending freedom” rather than to change states’ laws and to protect American children from rape, coercion and molestation.
Today, Johnson is campaigning for a state law to stop underage marriage that has already become a norm in some states.
Please, help me to raise awareness to this issue. No one can remain indifferent to the problem of child molestation.
I remember hearing of a well documented, and publizied case from my sociology class in high school.
I do not remember the state but the 13 year old with her 20-something year old “lover” fled to another state to get married because in that state if you are pregnant your could get married without parental consent… even if you are 13.
The mother of the 13 year old was disabled and had multiple restraining orders against him to stay away from her and her young daughter…. but they are just pieces of paper after all.
Flamingsalyut Safehaven 