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If that is the case, than Mr. Jeffs facilitating the marriage was a case of giving the green light to Steed to rape Wall, since any sexual relations would be rape and marriage assumes having sex, especially in the context of the FLDS where the overridding goal is having lots of children?
As far as I can tell, this was not a legally contracted marriage, and so the marriage defense does not apply to the sexual relations.
The more I think about it, the more I am beganing to think maybe we should raise the marriage age to 18. However, there are fairly good reasons for allowing it under that age, espeially the already pregnant exception to parental consent.
What people have to realize is that any exception with parental consent also requires formal registration of the marriage.
Only legally formed marriages provide exemption to existing laws against 17 year olds having sex with 37 year olds and the like.