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Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional (vanity)

Posted on 12/14/2013 10:50:10 AM PST by TigerClaws

Link not allowed but this is a major news story for conservatives as it proves what we warned about:

A U.S. District Court judge has sided with the polgyamous Brown family, ruling that key parts of Utah’s polygamy laws are unconstitutional.

Judge Clark Waddoups’ 91-page ruling, issued Friday, sets a new legal precedent in Utah, effectively decriminalizing polygamy. It is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by the family of Kody Brown, who became famous while starring in cable TV channel TLC’s reality series "Sister Wives." The show entered a fourth season at the end of the summer.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56894145-78/utah-brown-family-sltrib.html.csp


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To: TigerClaws

21 posted on 12/14/2013 12:32:17 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TigerClaws

What consenting adults do in their own homes is their business. Get someone to wave a wand over your heads and you are a unit, couple, pair, etc . . . A private affair the state has no business in.

Every legal claim they want can be accomplished with a little legal planning and contracts.

Legal and religious marriages are VERY different.
The State has an interest in what’s best for the State, and rewards/punishes to that end. The State can also NOT discriminate in many areas.
If one man/one woman is not marriage, anything and everything is possible.

Marry all your children and pass on everything inheritance tax free!


22 posted on 12/14/2013 2:10:15 PM PST by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: Dr. Sivana
A true polygamist will take public responsibility for his wives and offspring.

Those FLDS members in TX were sucking up every welfare entitlement they could get their hands on.

23 posted on 12/14/2013 2:39:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Polygamy is certainly less unnatural than the bizarre and ludicrous concept that persons of the same sex can be “married.” Bravo Judge!


24 posted on 12/14/2013 3:05:20 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: TigerClaws

Yo, ho, ho and the canary’s next!


25 posted on 12/14/2013 3:54:53 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em, Danno)
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To: Cicero
Yeah, but Judge Waddoups is a reliable vote for corporate mega-interests! Did Orin Hatch recommend this boob for the District Court? Maybe Mike Lee has an available ideological twin to make Utah safe for conservatism next time Hatch is up. Just in case, Hatch would like to run yet again, make him pay for Waddoups.

The Mormon high command in Salt Lake City gave up on polygamy more than a century ago. Practicing (however unofficially) polygamists in Utah are actively suppressed. Therefore, Waddoups is doing this, not as a Mormon, but as a social revolutionary. Hide your household pets before he strikes again.

26 posted on 12/14/2013 4:03:40 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em, Danno)
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To: stylin19a

Yes, it was.


27 posted on 12/15/2013 10:58:36 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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