The girls were among 41 children removed last month from the homes of members of Atlanta's House of Prayer, where children allegedly were held down and beaten.
Church members contend they have the right to discipline their children as they choose.
The girls' father, James Smith, told Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge Sanford Jones that his daughters should be home with their husbands. Smith said Tuesday. If a girl can go and lay, she should be married. If she's old enough to lay, she's old enough to get married. The state argued that the girls are not emancipated adults under Georgia law because they were married in Alabama and were supported entirely by their parents and not their husbands.