The title of your article couldn't be any further from the truth. Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children. Not to adolescents. If a 22-year-old man marries his 15-year-old girlfriend, it's because the couple wishes to make their relationship legal. However, you cannot go equating that scenario to some 78-year-old man in a trench coat grabbing a 5-year-old toddler from a playground and committing unspeakable acts upon her. You're comparing orange to apples. I say that Governor Chris Christie was right to maintain the status quo. Moreover, the decision on the fate of underage marriage should not be up to the state legislature but rather placed on the election ballot as a proposition for voters decide upon, if it is to be entertained at all. ("Proposition" is the technical term that is used in California whenever voters decide on a law instead of state legislatures, and it appears as a question on an election ballot. I don't know what the exact technical term for it is in New Jersey, but you get the idea.) It's the voters who should decide this matter rather than elected officials, because it will affect many peoples' lives in the event that it becomes law; and if voters decide to maintain the status quo, then so be it. By the way, I agree with you on that quote from President Thomas Jefferson regarding civil disobedience, but I disagree with your reasons for citing that quote in your article.