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Speaker 0 argues that the age of consent should be lowered and challenges the very concept itself by tying consent to marriage. They claim marriage equates to ongoing consent, stating that “marriage is consent” and that there is “no such thing as marital rape” because when you marry a person, you have a “marital obligation to give your spouse sex whenever they want it.” They assert this is “literally Catholic doctrine,” and that “the only moral way to have sex is within marriage.” They go further to claim that “the only way to get married is to consent to sex on demand, and both partners agree to that,” and that denying it is a “mortal sin.” They summarize this as their position on consent theory and label it as their version of the age of consent.
They insist the distinction is not “age of consent” but “age of marriage,” challenging the concept of an age threshold for sexual activity. They question the concept itself, remarking, “What is this? Christians have no use for such things,” adding, “Christians have no use for such a concept.” They describe a Christian sexual ethic as one where “you get married,” and “a Christian doesn’t have sex with anybody,” but rather “has sex with their spouse within marriage,” and they assert that “nobody’s getting married at a pre pubescent age.”
The speaker then asserts that people “get married when they’re at a reproductive age, when they’re adolescents,” indicating they are redefining the concept of marriage timing. Overall, the statements present a view that marriage is the framework for sexual consent, that marital obligations govern sexual activity, and that Christian doctrine underpins this approach, while challenging conventional notions of age limits and the feasibility of premarital sex.