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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 02:23 AM
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2. Who made the law
that said that people should be 18 years old in order to get married and have sex. This is an American 'thing'.
We wouldn't have as many out of wedlock pregnancies if the law allowed 16 and 17 year olds to marry.
The laws are discriminating against young people that fall in love and want to have a future together - it is un-natural to deny them of this HUMAN RIGHT of happiness.
I was fifteen years old when I first was with my soul-mate, he was 19.
In the 1970s we ran away together to California and lived together for almost a year until things got rough, due to no support from our families. I returned home - and then he was tossed into jail when he returned to our home town weeks later because of charges my mother filed - charges that I believe to be unconstitutional. All this did was RUIN his life and mine. We eventually split up and reunited 20 years later - that time with him was the best time of my life - he recently died of a heart attack.

There is much talk of gay rights and minority rights in the MSM ... I believe that the next issue on the agenda will be young people's rights.

It is a sad thing when people grow old and forget what it is like to be young.


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