1. Introduction
A couple of days ago, I was surfing the Internet. I came across an obituary for my cousin-in-law. For the purpose of this article, I will refer to her as Elisa. Also, for the purpose of this same article, I will refer to my cousin (her husband) as Derek.
Elisa was 56 years old when she died earlier this year. Until I read her obituary, I was unaware that she had great-grandchildren. You don't think of someone that young having great-grandchildren. Then again, she began having children in her teenage years.
As I have mentioned in a previous article of mine, Elisa was 15 years old when she met my then-30-year-old cousin, Derek, and fell in love with him. They got married a year later, and the rest is history. They were together for four decades right up until Elisa's recent death. They had a better marriage than a number of same-age couples I have known.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who believe that teenage marriage, especially cross-generational teenage marriage, is a form of legalized child sexual abuse. One of those people is YouTuber Hawk's Podcasts ("Hawk") as I have pointed out in a previous article of mine.
2. Hawk's Preconceived Notions About Teenage Marriage
I never like to turn my articles into anything political; but when something is bothering me, I cannot remain silent about it. Hawk has that effect on me.
I came across yet another video of Hawk on YouTube wherein he begins talking about an interesting subject concerning sexual abuse and sexual misconduct in the church. Then he goes off on a tangent about teenage marriage and insists that it is a form of legalized sexual abuse. Below is his video.
Hawk Is Clueless About The Topic Of Teenage Marriage, And He's The One Preaching Morality
Okay. Allow me to interject, Hawk. Anyone who follows me here on the PEAKD.com writing platform knows that I am no fan of organized religion. I also do nothing to hide the fact that I'm an agnostic.
I find Hawk's points interesting about insurance companies protecting religious institutions from bankruptcy in the event of a sex scandal that leads to an expensive lawsuit. I have never known of an insurance company that actively seeks out high-risk customers; but, then again, if there is money to be made, then I guess there would be insurance companies that engage in these types of business practices.
Nevertheless, I don't see where teenage marriage factors into this same narrative of his, and he has no right to be pervert-shaming every man on the face of the Earth who has ever married a 13-year-old girl or has even so much fallen in love with one.
I am perfectly aware that Republicans tend to defend the status quo regarding teenage marriage before 18 years old in state jurisdictions where it is still legal. However, there are also liberals who do so inasmuch as they feel that banning all marriage before 18 will strip teenagers of their agency here in the United States.
I am equally as anti-pedophile as Hawk is, but there is a world of a difference between a 7-year-old girl who falls victim to child molestation and a 13-year-old girl who takes a walk down the aisle to the altar to make her relationship with her boyfriend all good and legal.
Do I encourage girls to get married at 13 years old? Of course, I don't. I'm a square who believes that young people should put off marriage until they're at least 32 years of age. However, I recognize that teenage marriage is a way of weeding the bad apples out from the good apples in light of our nation's oppressive statutory-rape laws.
Hawk? I am curious about something. Have you ever known a woman personally who got married at 13 years old? You probably haven't, and that is the reason that you conjure up all these horrific thoughts about what her life must be like.
I have known women who got married at 13 years old, and their lives were perfectly fine. I've known people whose mother got married at 13 years old, and these people had no complaints about their fathers. In most instances, the father was noticeably older than the mother, but it didn't make him a sexual predator.
Hawk? Adult men who have married 13-year-old girls in the past did so to build a life with them rather than to legalize any form of sexual abuse of them. You are feeding into all the junk science that is out there and is disparaging these marriages.
Elected officials are shoving laws against teenage marriage down the throats of civilians here in the United States, and nobody who opposes their legislative actions is truly being given a voice in the matter. If these elected officials really cared about the public opinion, they would place these referendums on November ballots across the United States instead of forcibly changing the marriage laws in this regard.
Hawk? No matter how you look at it, these same legislative actions comprise the characteristics of a nation that is gradually changing into a Fascist totalitarian police state. I know that you don't like President Donald J. Trump, but at least he is fighting fiercely against corruption within the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), which is a battle that is long overdue.
Was President Trump involved in the criminal activities that the late Jeffrey Epstein committed? It remains to be proven. We cannot go strictly on guilt by association.
Nevertheless, Hawk, I will say these words to you. My cousin, Derek, did not groom his late wife, Elisa, when he first met her. He did not traffic her. He did not even sexually molest her. She was 15 years old and he was 30 years old when they first fell in love with each other, but there was no abuse in their relationship or their marriage that I know of.
My cousin, Derek, would never attend a pedophile pride parade in New York City either, if there were such a thing. He is protective of children.
Fact has it that Derek and Elisa were each on the opposite sides of the legal age line from each other at the outset of their relationship, and they got married to keep the authorities off their backs. They had a long, happy marriage for four decades, and they had a tight-knit family too. You cannot argue with that, Hawk. Elisa was born the same year (1968) that you were.
Hawk? Can you not see how screwed up American statutory-rape laws are and have been for a long time? If you don't believe me, simply read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end. You'll be surprised about how very little benefit teenage minors receive from these laws.
3. The Difference Between My Opinion And Hawk's Opinion About The Late Jeffrey Epstein
Hawk? I completely get it. You want justice against the people who conspired with the late Jeffrey Epstein in his criminal activities. Like you, I also would like for the people who conspired with the late Mr. Epstein in his criminal activities to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He was a tyrant. He ruined the lives of a countless number of young women.
Nevertheless, here is some food for thought, Hawk. There are likely more underage boys sexually assaulting and abusing teenage girls than there are older men doing so here in the United States. It angers me that very few people in our nation wish to wake up and see this problem as a fact.
Levi Johnston is no better of a person than the late Mr. Epstein was, even though Bristol Palin was the same age as him when he raped her. Jesse Mack Butler is no better of a person than the late Mr. Epstein was, even though he was the same age as his underage victims. The late Aubreigh Wyatt's nameless rapist is no better of a person than the late Mr. Epstein was, even though he was only 12 or 13 years old when he victimized her.
All of these three same young men either received outrageously light sentences or no sentences at all for their sex crimes against underage girls. Should this fact be something that our nation should be proud of? Of course not. It's reprehensible.
Unlike Hawk, I see these same issues from the whole broad picture instead of with tunnel vision, and every American should do so also. I take a bird's-eye view of them.
4. Final Thoughts
Hawk makes some very interesting points about religion in his video above. In his video above, what he reveals about insurance policies for church sexual abuse is concerning. At the same time, his comments about teenage marriage are somewhat offensive, and he should not be putting them out there.
In South Africa, people there are so busy trying to stop cannibals from murdering their toddlers that they don't have time to be obsessing over whether it is okay for a pregnant 13- or 14-year-old girl to marry her 25- or 35-year-old boyfriend. It bewilders me why liberals are so concerned about teenage marriage but have no problem with school administrators brainwashing 5-year-old boys into getting sex-change operations without the parents' knowledge or consent.
Hawk? If you want to accuse any group of people of being perverts, why don't you point your finger at prison rapists? Society and the law never seem to do much of anything to punish them for their heinous crimes.
Now that we have six Republicans on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, our lawmakers could pass laws that would make prison rape a capital offense punishable by the death penalty. In other words, the Coker vs. Georgia ruling is now in the doghouse. These convicts who rape other men behind bars are social degenerates who have no right to live.
Hawk? Instead of waging war against 13-year-old brides, why don't you do something constructive in defense of the youth of our nation? Why don't you go to elected officials and urge them to reform the inheritance laws in our nation so that parental testamentary freedom is eliminated once and for all?
No victim of incest or child abuse should ever be disinherited by the parent that harmed them. Plain and simple. These kids don't deserve a future of homelessness and poverty. It's these people that are crying out for help from people like you, Hawk, rather than teenage brides.
Furthermore, Hawk, nobody says that you have to like President Trump. I realize that his policies don't appeal to everyone.
I just so happened to vote for President Trump in the last three presidential elections, because I knew that he was going to be tough on FBI corruption. The FBI has been getting away with so much crap for way too long, and he's the only president who has ever shook them up and down.
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