No law about living together. He may be officially married to one of them.
The scary thing is TLC joining HBO in going whole hog in normalizing polygamy. Standard technique. Pick some squeaky-clean, salt-of-the-earth types and pretend they’re the norm. Put them forward as media image darlings, lather, rinse, repeat. Soon enough, some lobbying group will be formed or maybe the ACLU will take up the cause and just keep trying to establish some landmark case, cracking it wide open, maybe a local politician or two will make it their cause if there are sufficient numbers in a certain locale to be worth pandering to.
The important thing is, they need lily-white, non-threatening FLDS types. Nobody is going to find sinister muzzies to be sympathetic characters.
That's true.. one is under the law to keep taxes and home ownership stuff clean, but the other two are just non-legally recognized, girlfriends (for a lack of a better term).
I doubt this will normalize anything. Normal makes for boring TV, Big Love is a success because it has drama, if this show succeeds it will also be because of the drama. People like to see drama, but most don’t actually want to live it. Complicated lives tend to be unhappy lives (just look at how reality stars go through spouses), but they sure do make good TV.
“Nobody is going to find sinister muzzies to be sympathetic characters.”
It is necessary for the Progressives to Normalize Polygamy in order to make Islam more acceptable.
Just one of the steps to desensitization.