Roy Moore: Acceptance of pedophilia in the South is a legacy of slavery

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12. It is a legacy of the south. I remember hearing stories about Jerry lee Lewis marrying

his 13 yo cousin, and Elvis Pressley marrying 14 yo Priscilla. Those were the public stuff I heard about. When I first saw the movie the Color Purple, I remember when one of the main characters (Mister) married a very young girl (Celie). My grandmother told me who grew up in Georgia at the turn of the century told me that this was common in the South and that she knew girls her age like 13 yo who were made to marry older men if their father agreed to it. She told me that there were times when a few men asked her father to marry her cause they were widowed and her father said no. It is bad that this practice still takes place today. Fortunately, my grandmother married when she was 18 to my 20 yo grandfather.