Posted on 07/14/2010 2:43:09 PM PDT by T Minus Four
AZ seeks emergency hearing on twin polygamy towns July 14th, 2010 @ 12:32pm SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Arizona attorney general's office has asked a Utah judge for an emergency hearing on the rising tensions between residents of twin polygamous communities on the Utah-Arizona border.
The Thursday request comes in the wake of property-use disputes and allegations that police have failed to enforce the court-ordered authority of an accountant charged with managing the United Effort Plan Trust.
The trust holds nearly all the properties in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., the base of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The Utah courts took control of the trust in 2005 amid allegations of mismanagement. That has sparked a string of disputes between current and former FLDS members.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
This is why they want Romney to run...
Of course Reid is left off the hook..
You’re an idiot. Your rabid anti-Mormonism has blinded you to any reason or logic.
Moreover, you need to get with the program. Now that a federal district court in Massachussetts has ruled that the federal Protection of Marriage Act is unconstitutional these non-Mormon polygamists will be free to have their marriages recognized.
This recent decision essentially said the federal government can’t tell a state how to regulate marriage, and since the federal government told Utah they couldn’t permit polygamy over 100 years ago that federal interference is now null and void....right?
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One would hope. "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting the establishment of a religion, nor prohibit the FREE EXERCISE thereof..."
I don't agree with polygamy. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want more than one wife at a time. But as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult and there is no force, threat of force, or fraud involved it is quite simply none of the Governments business how or who adults chose to live with.
Period.
United Effort...
Where have I heard THAT before?
Your rabid Mormonism has blinded you to any reason or logic.
I guess the GUMMINT will do whatever it wants to!
"Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage...I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws..."~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President
All federal laws are null and void unless the fed acts to uphold them. That is Bambi’s stance. Party on Wayne.
I surely hope that you will post some evidence to back up this statement you just made.
It should be interesting to read.
I refuse to be drawn into discussions about whether or not a particular "God" approves of it or not. It's irrelevant.
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And yet they do it all the time!
Amazing country; this!
Finally, someone who has some sense.
Polygamy is unenforceable, simple as that.
Unless someone gets multiple concurrent marriage licenses, you cannot prosecute them on the books for bigamy or polygamy as a criminal charge.
Having cohabiting persons, even in multiplicity is fully legal, and has been for who knows how long. Numerous celebrities have open relationships or cheat on their spouses in their own homes, or have separate families with their mistresses. We don’t prosecute this, even when the guy doesn’t support children had through these relationships.
We once did sent federal enforcement against off-the-books polygamy (i.e. cohabitation), but that pretty much singled out the Mormon Church, and good laws don’t single groups out. How are we going to get back to enforcing the laws.
IMO, the real issue is not whether or not certain marriages are legit, but rather whether the state has any say in throwing out tax cuts to select registered relationships. I really don’t think it does. If that were true, you would disenfranchise the FLDS ranches, if they were using welfare dollars, and disenfranchise who knows what else that desired some sort of special recognition. Inheritance rights or custody rights could be settled, and that should be that.
Sadly though, I do think that the Federal government will end up being the arm of the propaganda machine for these various movements.
So long as their beliefs are not at my expense, I would not care. But this religion’s beliefs, if they are welfare-dependent, are entirely at the expense of our taxpayers’ money to uphold. In addition, are any of these people participating in their constitutional rights as citizens, paying their taxes, etc.? I would really like to know. If they are just being a burden on us to pay for with our taxes, such as rampant illegal immigration, put the disenfranchisement threat placed on the LDS Church on the FLDS.
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