In light of the new adaptation of marriage instituted in Tennessee and Lauren Boebert’s demand that revealing one’s sexual Identity before 21 should be illegal, we have a conservative, bigot conundrum.

Under a new Tennessee law, since established civil marriage consists of a man and a woman or two people of the same sex, thus affording both all the civil benefits of a legal marriage, Common law marriages between people of the opposite sex that requires neither a church blessing or a legal contract are equal to those duly married. However, as it is not modifying existing marriage laws and requirements for marriage but instituting a new form of marriage, beyond that as is considered the only biblically and, therefore, legally recognized form, that is only available to heterosexual people.

Because there are no rules regarding age limits in shacking up as there are with marriage, these types of marriages do not have a minimum age for either the man or woman, so child marriages are now legal provided it is not the traditional legal marriages with at the restrictions.

Here is where Boebert clashes.

Lauren Boebert wants to put a minimum age limit for a person to acknowledge their gender.

“We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products. Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?”

if people can’t legally drink or buy tobacco products until 21, why not the same limit for mentioning your gender?

We could do the same with gun ownership.

This High School dropout left school because she was pregnant by the man she would marry and who had been arrested for waving his privates in front of some girls at a bowling alley. They now have four happy, gun toting children.

She was sexually active while still in high school and, obviously, was aware of her gender and let it be known publicly, or this was quite the way for her to find it out.

In Tennessee a person must be at least 17 to get married and there are requirements for parental consent for anyone younger.

In a Common Law marriage, there is no need for parental consent, although the conversations among family members at gatherings could be awkward, or not, after the moving in together.

But, again, this only applies to heterosexual, male/female couplings, and not same sex ones.

However, since anyone under 21 cannot announce their gender legally, how will the partners in a common law marriage know whether they get any benefits as their gender is Schrodinger’s cat until they both hit 21 and will only find out then if their common law marriages should finally get the benefits because it had been heterosexual one or won’t because at the 21 Birthday/Reveal party, the gender surprise could rule that out.

The default stance until then is gender-neutral.

Boebert has actually crossed wires with the other act of bigotry and may cancel that out in favor of her own ideas or at least cause a heck of a lot of confusion.

Boebert wants a federal law that would include Tennessee.

It will be interesting if that state rebels because gender reveal laws are state rights as are underage brides and grooms.

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