Good thing none of the millions of single, out-of-wedlock or monogamous married people in this country are getting those welfare checks. Oh, wait... LOL
Posted on 07/01/2014 12:42:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In what way did they risk jail? Unless they violate tax laws or attempt to register the later unions as legal marriages, no prosecutor is going to come after them.
On December 13, 2013, Federal Judge Clark Waddoups ruled that portions of Utah's ban on multiple cohabitation were unconstitutional and found in favor of the Browns, but also allowed Utah to maintain its ban on multiple marriage licenses.
Oooh, old fashioned morality laws actually put into force, or attempted at any rate. I am astonished.
Notice they were slapped down and it probably opened the door for polygamy in Utah, despite their state constitution specifically banning it? Read the whole Wiki entry if you’re curious as to what happened, if you haven’t already.
Two notes:
NONE of these people belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (the Mormons). They would be excommunicated - do not pass GO, do not collect another wife.
I’m not in favor of polygamy, and certainly not in favor of gay “marriage”. But polygamous “marriage” is more logical than faggot “marriage”.
They’re in a Mormon offshoot:
Apostolic United Brethren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_United_Brethren
“Oh, if a man could just have more then one wife!” - Al Bundy (rolling his eyes).
The only "benefit" would be having multiples in the marriage bed and "wife" #1 not able to complain. Strange, I don't see that church allowing women to have multiple "husbands".
Why did the big men of certain periods of antiquity set up harems as soon as they were able to afford them, I wonder? One of which was proclaimed the wisest man who ever lived? But I take your point.
My friend and I watch this show so we can snark about it together. The Browns are a bunch of morons and the women are miserable. No wonder the kids don't want anything to do with polygamy.
I have to wonder if welfare fraud was part of the Utah AG's investigation. Two of the wives admit to being on welfare/using food stamps, one of them well into filming the show. Every one of the wives and the husband have filed for bankruptcy at one time or another.
Having watched the show a few times, I think he might mean multiple people engaged in child care, education and rearing, multiple cooks and cleaning/errand running people, multiple streams of income, the secure feeling of a large family plus what you mentioned. The husband actually sees the multiple beds as something of a headache, but he obviously believes in the tenets of his religion.
What the polygamist man needs / hopes for:
Porn star in the bedroom
Julia Childs in the Kitchen
Alice the maid for housekeeping
SuperModel for going out on the town
What the polygamist ends up with:
Julia Childs with a knife in the bedroom
Alice the maid cooking dinner in the mop bucket
Porn star with no house keeping skills as the maid
SuperModel spending the man’s money while out on the town
Stella 1: Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd, what have you been up to? Have you been drinking again? You answer me!
Harry Mudd: Shut up.
Stella 1: You miserable, conniving toad!
Harry Mudd: I order you, shut up!
Stella 1: Going out all night and giving me silly stories!
Stella 2: Harcourt!
Harry Mudd: Aaahhh!
Stella 2: Harcourt Fenton Mudd, you’ve been overeating again, and drinking!
Harry Mudd: Kirk, you can’t do this. It’s inhuman!
Stella 2: You need constant supervision. My work’s cut out for me.
Stella 1: Harcourt!
Stella 500: Have you ever seen a worm in alcohol! You’re on a regular schedule!
Harry Mudd: No. Number 500?
The Mormon church told its members to stop practicing polygamy in order for Utah to gain statehood. In the temples, however, they still teach that it’s an eternal principle sent by God.
Good thing none of the millions of single, out-of-wedlock or monogamous married people in this country are getting those welfare checks. Oh, wait... LOL
Yeah, we get to pay for their “American dream”.
Looking at those pics, I’d especially love to go upside the head of that surfer idiot.
That's because she's one of the only adults in that mess with a paying job.
I believe that two of the wives and the husband work outside the home.
And yet they all qualified for mortgages on 4 very nice houses.
I would love to know how much this show is paying them. These people are the anti-Duggars.
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