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Utah’s complicated history with polygamy will start a new chapter Wednesday when an attorney for a reality-show family files a lawsuit that could send the state’s ban on plural marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nationally-known constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley said the lawsuit to be filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City will not call for plural marriages to be recognized by the state. Instead, it asks for polygamy between consenting adults like his clients, former Utahn Kody Brown and his wives, to no longer be considered a crime.
Originally posted by SirMike
So whats the take on this ... good or bad? And is this the start of state recognized polygamist marriages just like gay marriage is being now being recognized?
Uh oh. Conservatives are starting to hyperventilate again. You know the symptoms: In a haystack of right-wing dominance, they find a needle of radicalism, declare it a mortal danger to civilization, and use it to rally their voters in the next election. First it was flag-burning. Then it was the "war on Christmas." Now it's polygamy. Having crushed gay marriage nationwide in 2004, they need to gin up a new threat to the family. They've found it in Big Love, the HBO series about a guy with three wives. Open the door to gay marriage, they warn, and group marriage will be next.
Originally posted by silent thunder
So whats the take on this ... good or bad? And is this the start of state recognized polygamist marriages just like gay marriage is being now being recognized?
Utah’s bigamy statute includes cohabiting with one person when you’re legally married to another.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
The whole "gay marriage" debate was mostly about the term "marriage." I think "Legal Unions" should be allowed for all couples, not just gay ones.
Originally posted by blood0fheroes
All voluntary associations should be protected.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Annee
I disagree, but maybe the government forms should be changed to say union.
I think a vast majority of people think of "marriages" being done in churches or chapels. That was part of the big hangup for conservative Christians.
Originally marriages were sacred before God, and the governments loved them, because they resulted in procreation, more tax payers, more soldiers, etc. In that original sense, a ban on Gay Marriage made sense, because gay marriages didn't result in children.