Because it never was about children, they're just an excuse.

Drag queens teach people and especially kids how to look beyond initial appearances when forming judgments and reactions. This devastates the GOP.

There is no logic behind it. We do ourselves a disservice by treating their warped morality as anything other than bigotry that should be squelched.

Because they think that if the kid gets pregnant they should get married. Meanwhile they fear that the child may be “corrupted”. They see marriage as holy or normal even if it happens too soon.

Source: have dated a former underage bride

Also forcing children to give birth without medical assistance(meaning abortion)

Melanie used logic. That was Melanie's first mistake.

Girls must be taught to be objectified and controlled. Not learn to be inclusive or to think for themselves from books.

my sister once did one of the [hopefully] non-pedophile ones. it was so weird and unpleasant and frivolous and strange at every stage -- a hybrid of awful stage mothers / dance mothers / cheerleading mothers plus very very insidious and insane body shaming

Its not about protecting children from abuse and manipulation, its about protecting children from growing up into intelligent, compassionate people who won't vote red.

Reading transfers knowledge and in their handmaid's tales fantasies human incubators women don't need something so distracting

Are those all pro-slave states too?

Cause a-dig-dig-diddlin kids is a-ok as long as you do it a straight way like God intended.

Edit:Please may nobody quote this comment out of context.

It was about homosexuality only.