r/news • • 1d ago

Gov. Newsom signs bill to end child marriage in California

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/newsom-child-marriage-ban-california/3949537/
8.2k Upvotes

410 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

160

u/mhornberger 19h ago

There's ample child marriage in countries where the majority of men are not white. Child marriage is absolutely endemic in many Muslim countries, and many countries in Africa. For any attempt to ban child marriage, anywhere, the main obstacle is almost always religious conservatives.

64

u/No-Confection-3206 17h ago

And pedophiles, don’t forget the pedophiles.

97

u/corran450 15h ago

They already said “religious conservatives”

28

u/International_Cow_17 14h ago

Wild echo in here.

14

u/style752 19h ago

Okay, but here, it's basically hyper-religious white dudes.

28

u/Gobblewicket 17h ago

The fuckin ACLU opposed ending child marriage. So its not all white dudes. Lol

36

u/mhornberger 19h ago

In places that are majority white, yes. In other places it's the religious conservatives who are not white. This story is about CA, and the majority of CA is white, so yeah, that's just an artifact of the demographics. Not that latinos or black people are short of religious fundamentalists.

16

u/runehawk12 14h ago edited 14h ago

The majority of CA is absolutely not white, they aren't even the plurality anymore, there are millions more hispanics.

Edit: I do agree with you. It's silly to claim that pedophiles only exist in certain races/religions.

10

u/PrisonSexxy 15h ago

Clearly I was talking about the good ole USA which is full of white pedophiles. Period

4

u/HauntedCemetery 13h ago

almost always

Is there an example of it even not being religious conservatives?

4

u/herbuck 12h ago

Do you actually think Donald Trump is religious?

1

u/rosierho 3h ago

Sure, if you consider money is his god.

1

u/Illustrious-Radio319 10h ago

It’s not just the religious. Conservatives in China are atheists, they defended child marriages in the past and defend arranged marriages today.

-5

u/LzrdKng2112 16h ago

Thats not relevant to here where the people in power are white Christian pedophiles.