I doubt were "debating" polygamy now any more than we were "debating" Anna Nicole Smith a year ago.
It's just the media trying to get an audience.
Well, this article was written about two years ago. And if you've been following this FLDS story (maybe you haven't), you'd know that a debate about polygamy has very much become part of that story---not just here on FR, but on plenty of other blogs and bb's.