 I've heard you talk about parents rights to raise their kids how they want in fact I just double-checked you voted no on making it illegal for kids to be married to adults at the age of 12 If their parents consented to it you said actually that should be the law because it's the parents right and the kids Right to decide what's best for them to be raped by an adult Okay, you're a kids who have been with marriage age 12 That was the law you voted not to change it. Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I don't need to I do And guess what they're still married gentlemen You just listened to Missouri Republican Mike moon unironically defend marriages for children as young as 12 years old Yeah, now the Democrat who confronted him about this Peter Meredith asked him about this during a debate about banning gender Affirming care for trans youth and Mike moon said that he supports this ban because he wants to protect children but Logically it follows that if you want to protect children then wouldn't you want to protect them from marriage? Specifically marriage to pedophile adults because it seems a little bit contradictory if you care so much about protecting children That you voted the way that you did on child marriage But apparently he doesn't want to protect children because as the Heartland signal explains moon support for child marriage stretches back to 2018 When he referenced the same 12-year-old couple He knew when he voted against a bill that raised the marriage age the gender affirming care ban sent bill 49 Passed in the Republican controlled assembly by a vote of 106 to 45 with just two Republicans voting against that alongside the outnumbered Democrats the bill needs another House vote for it to move to the state Senate Which the Republicans also control by a 24 to 10 margin moon was elected as a state senator in 2021 and previously served in the Missouri Assembly from 2013 to 2021 while running his district 29 seat moon stated that Quote putting an end to abortion was one of his top priorities from Missouri He also supports eliminating corporate taxes and it's introduced bills to limit sex education Classes so you kind of get a better picture as to who we're dealing with this is somebody who supports child marriage he also wants to limit sex education and end abortion now he responded to all of this because that clip went viral for good reason and He is defending himself by saying quote to be clear I did not advocate for minors to be married off to adults check out my video below to learn the truth about this issue Keep your California politics out of Missouri Democrats will say whatever they can to make sure they can keep mutilating children and you can see the Hashtag stop transing kids there. So Yeah, he doesn't want you to trans the kids because you know these issues related to gender ideology They're just not appropriate for kids kids should be focused on kid issues like marriage Now he did link to a YouTube video where he tries to defend himself But I find it amusing that he actually thinks that this is going to help him here, but let's watch. I'm Mike moon I represent Missouri's 29th Senate district For this legislative session my number one priority has been to protect children from the radical gender confusion plaguing our nation I filed the safe act Senate bill 49 Which aims to prohibit the poisoning of children with the same drugs used to castrate sex offenders in prisons And ban the surgical mutilation and butchering of children's bodies in Missouri Let me set the record straight. I do not support adults marrying minors In fact, if there's an instance in which an adult has recently married a minor in this state of Missouri I'll make it a priority to remove and prohibit adults from marrying minors furthermore If a person is raped no matter the age the rapist should be punished to the fullest extent of the law The vote mentioned was referring to house bill 1630 This bill intended to raise the age at which minors could legally marry from age 15 to 17 As I contemplated the bill I was reminded of a couple I'd met years before When this couple was in their teens actually pre-teens They took actions that resulted in the girl becoming pregnant The youngsters parents decided to allow the children to marry. They weren't forced However, because they were not mature and could not provide for themselves. They grew up with their families in different states After a number of years when the children became adults and were able to care for themselves They began to live together The couple was still married today So with this in mind and because allowances for these extreme exceptions were not included in the language I voted against the bill Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue The grace and mercy of god In the word of the lord Romans 323 states for all ascend and come short of the glory of god This couple like me have a sin nature The bible goes on to say in roman 623 for the wages of sin is death But the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ in essence The payment for our sin is death However, jesus paid the payment for our sin because he lived a perfect life Was killed a cruel death and resurrected from the dead Okay, that's enough So he drones on about religious bullshit for like another minute or so But you kind of get the point jesus good Child marriage Also good Now he claims that he's against adults marrying children and he only supports children marrying other children Still bad But the problem is he voted against stopping adults from marrying children because Missouri activist laura berghardt shared this roll call vote taken in 2018 And as you can see he voted against raising the minimum age for marriage in his state And here's specifically what he voted against quote Children ages 15 to 17 now can get married with a parent's permission Those younger than 15 need approval from a judge the bill would require 15 to 17 year olds to get a judge's approval following a court hearing Children 14 years old or younger couldn't marry the measure would also ban marriages if one partner is at least 21 years old and the other is younger than 17 So my brother in christ, you literally voted against a ban on children marrying adults specifically He can say that he's against it now, but that's how he voted your actions Speak for themselves and he's very much aware of the consequence of his vote because in that video He stated that he will try to make it a priority to prohibit adults from marrying minors if it happened recently Oh, is that so it's interesting that this is only a priority for you suddenly after you went viral But it wasn't a priority for you back in 2018 when you could have banned adults from marrying children You voted against it and on that note. He said something else that I found really interesting. He said that Uh, the children who got married who he referenced they took actions that resulted in the girl becoming pregnant Took actions resulting in the girl becoming pregnant. And what might those actions be mike See to him the response to that wouldn't be to give the children the option to have an abortion Or even educate them so that they know which actions might lead to pregnancy The response is to force that little girl He's talking about to give birth and require these children to get married because they maybe didn't know about the Actions that they were taking and how it would result in pregnancy So forcing little girls into motherhood and by extension marriage That's his solution in lieu of abortion Or sex education Just let them um take actions that might lead to pregnancy and force them to live with that consequences even if they're so young But yet simultaneously this freak wants you to believe that he's the one who's trying to protect children I'm sorry, but you're full of shit mike We don't need to protect kids from radical leftists who want to trans the kids We need to protect them from religious freaks like you Whoa, more or less I dreamed I saw my maternal grandmother. She was stroking herself absentmindedly. I let her have her way The genital region was exposed. I let her have her way