Consent

Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested. Former church members accuse him of child abuse. Alamo claims there is a mandate from the Bible for young girls to marry, that consent is puberty.

The Bible is a holy book, God's word, that we all need to live by. There are plenty of stories about older men marrying young teen age girls in it. Back then a older man could go to some 12 year old girl's father, offer him some cattle and a few shekels, and voila, he's got himself a child bride, ready to start pushing out a kid every year until she drops from exhaustion. And I don't believe the Bible speaks against it.