Posted on 07/13/2011 3:27:42 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
SALT LAKE CITY — Kody Brown and his four wives filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Utah's law that criminalizes polygamy.
In filing the suit, the Browns' attorney Jonathan Turley said the family seeks to live according to its deep-seated religious beliefs and faith and not as "presumptive criminals."
"This family looks different than a lot of families in Utah. But it is their family, not your family," Turley said outside the U.S. District Courthouse.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Hands down, it was only a matter of time before all these polygamists came crawling out of the woodwork, guess they finally did. I hope the court turns them down and states that they don’t deserve some special recognition for now though.
As predictable as sunrise after the gay marriage rulings. I’m sure the NAMBLA lawyers are preparing a brief as are the necrophiliacs and creeps who find sex with animals a turn-on. Pandora’s Box is wide open now.
They've got their special underwear all in a bunch.
Hey, if rear admirals and carpet munchers can marry, why can’t a man or woman have multiple partners? Why can’t I marry my horse (?)..shoot its a lot more faithful than my first ex wife. And if I marry a gerbil, can’t I get partner benefits from the government?
Its a slippery slope. Gays, polygamists, marry your pet....
We all know how slippery it is when some people say, just de-criminalize what I do and leave me alone...
The Mormons are the ones who passed the bill to make cohabitation between unwed man and woman illegal, as a means to satisfy the conditions for statehood, at least they were an overwhelming majority back then. Now, the Mormons, including the mainstream, could undo their polygamy restrictions if they really wanted to, simply because for the most part, cohabitation, which entails polygamy, is decriminalized, the state doesn’t care if any given guy cohabits with who knows how many wives. I wonder why they haven’t given up on polygamy because of the decriminaliztion, of the aspects around enforcing it, but then again, I guess the big mainstream Mormonism has gotten a little assimilated with the rest of us.
So, is there anything else to know about this Jonathan Turley, and his ideas, because to me he sounds like a libertarian, and the closest thing I could see to a libertarian at that.
Even better, I wonder how our predeccessor, a.k.a. Europe, is doing right now?
Probably a liberatarian in the liberal sense at least on who you can marry. I am sure gays and polys will be at the court hearings.
But he is not a Mormon. He is something else, maybe pluralist Baptist.
No kids are being propogated enough by the natives, and the Mid East immigrants are multiplying like rabbits. Can you say Caliphate by multiplication?
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Even if the mainstream Mormons could practice polygamy legally, they probably wouldn’t go back to the 19th century. We have spent more time as a monogamous faith than we did in polygamy. I don’t ever see the LDS Church reversing course. But you make a good point. Why can’t polygamists of whatever ilk do so without persecution? Maybe the Welfare Wives phenomenon.
We have spent more time as a monogamous faith than we did in polygamy. I don’t ever see the LDS Church reversing course. But you make a good point. Why can’t polygamists of whatever ilk do so without persecution? Maybe the Welfare Wives phenomenon.
Well the two of your creed which I met in person had no problem with playing video games, eating some fast food, and playing around with modern tech like computers and programming with them, heck, even you are an example of the last statment right there by responding to me.
Again, culturally, it’s probably weeded out by the way plenty of the kind have grown up. That’s probably the biggest weapon against modern polygamy... assimilation into pop culture. But then again, I do believe that people should be responsible for their own issues. Make sure the state doesn’t subsidize polygamy in any way, sort of like illicit drugs.
As a side note, polygamy is way less common in the Middle East than it was in the era of the Ottoman Empire, suggesting more to my hypothesis that modernization and wealth play a role in diminishing it.
No kids are being propogated enough by the natives, and the Mid East immigrants are multiplying like rabbits. Can you say Caliphate by multiplication?
It’s more like our own immigration phonomena on steroids. People move in, don’t really have to make a record with the government, don’t have to assimilate into society, and so on.
Oh! What a surprise! Who could have foreseen this??
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