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To: fanfan
If it's happening there, then it's happening here bigger and more expensive.

I wonder if Mormons allowed to have multiple wives in Canada?

37 posted on 02/08/2008 9:30:08 AM PST by JPJones (Those who sacrifice Conservatism for Republicanism shall receive neither.)
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To: JPJones
I wonder if Mormons allowed to have multiple wives in Canada?

If you read the whole article you will find that neither Mormons nor Muslims can have more than one wife here. There is some ambiguity in the law related to the recognition of foreign marriages by the feds and the province, but no such ambiguity exists in the case of Mormons because Ontario only recognizes marriages that were legal in the country where they took place. Last time I checked, polygamy was illegal in the USA.

39 posted on 02/08/2008 10:27:35 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: JPJones

Further on this, it appears that the Ontario law recognizing polygamous foreign marriages applies to divorce law. That means a Muslim with more than one wife can be sued for divorce and alimony by all of them.


40 posted on 02/08/2008 10:29:51 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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