No, Tucker Carlson, Child Marriage is not a ‘Different Lifestyle’

Newly uncovered audio has US political media personality Tucker Carlson defending a man who received a felony conviction for arranging child marriages in the US. The audio was recorded more than a decade ago, during appearances by Carlson on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show. In subsequent audio recordings, Carlson uses racist and homophobic slurs. Expand Protesters from Unchained at Last speak in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston to end child marriage in Massachusetts, May 2017. © 2017 Unchained at Last/Facebook Carlson is heard on the audio backing the accused, saying:…

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