Today was a sad day in the Idaho House. What I thought was a modest compromise to try to prevent coercion and potential abuse of children, by raising the floor on the marriage age to 16 - let me repeat, 16 - turned out to be too progressive for too many of my republican colleagues. Arguments against: parental rights and a disagreement with aligning marriage laws with the statutory rape laws. I’m at a loss... thanks Annie Hightower and the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence for all the great work you did.