My view of the US is probably overly influenced by Hollywood, but I had the impression that the right to marry your high school sweetheart was a crucially important instance of the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness set out in the Declaration of Independence. If so, it seems as if there’s a contradiction between this and this.
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John Quiggin 
No, no, no.
You’re thinking of the right for a teenaged boy to marry his yunger sister (or his grandmother), and even then only in certain states. It’s all something to do with a deficiency of alcohol among the young.
No. Read the act again. Between a man and a woman. Teenage BOYS need not apply.
Less Hollywood in future, more Jerry Springer.
You can still marry your highschool sweetheart from your single-sex school, but one of you wil need to have a sex change prior to marrying.