Posted on 07/27/2011 7:47:21 AM PDT by 1pitech
If you want to see another blatant example of social activism at the expense of traditional marriage, go no further than The Learning Channel (TLC). Part of TLC’s knowledge-enhancing program lineup is the show featuring polygamist Kody Brown and his ever-growing, Utah-based harem of “Sister Wives.” The show is spun as a unique look at a non-traditional family that faces the same struggles as regular folks and manages to make it through life with strong bonds of love and respect. That sounds really nice doesn’t it? The truth of this dysfunctional group and their attempts at TV stardom are much darker, and much more dangerous to traditional American culture.
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I bet the creepiness of this guy is deeper than we think.
Polygamy will be the next to be recognized legally, followed (most likely) by the reduction in acceptable age to marry (pedophilia). The slippery slope is in motion.
in a sense, it already is. Muslim men are allowed to bring their multiple wives into USA and collect welfare on everyone.
Spin it however you want, these are women handing over their freedom to a domineering man driven by ego, and cloaking the entire mess with scriptures to stop the dialogue.
Not sure how what these people are doing is illegal; he only married the first one.
While I find the guy creepy, the women vapid, and the entire situation gross, I don't see how they could be prosecuted. I don't know anything about the laws regarding polygamy, but if you aren't legally married to more than one person, how does the state have any power over this kind of relationship??
I’d look for camels under those burkas...
As Jed Clampett once said, one wife she is never happy, 2 wives, they will always fight, 3 wives 2 of them will gang up on the other, so it would take at least 4 to overcome those issues and then no one could afford them anyway...
I thought that polygamy was illegal in all the states.
I’m guessing here but if the couple is claiming to be married, even if not legally, the State may recognized that as common law marriage. It used to be a joke in Texas that if you were living with someone you better not introduce yourself as married, or you were.
They may be getting around that by not registering the additional unions with the state.
As creepy as Young and Smith, squared.
I think they get some of them on fraud when they try to get legal benifits to more than one wife. Also child abuse for underage girls being “married”. I don’t know about the ones that keep their noses clean, but have multiple partners. The only other way I can see for the state to do anything are cohabitation laws, which are rarely enforced anywhere, to my understanding.
Freegards
Polygamy is being married to multiple women concurrently.
Monogamy is being married to (and divorced from) multiple women consecutively.
Kody what’shisname, may have discovered a preventive solution for ‘blended’ families of temporary ‘shack up’ relationships, when children get passed around in custody battles.
That could still happen to Studley and his stable of silly women.
I have never watched that offensive show of public procreativity, but it is not the only crisis of our times.
Here is the legal definition of polygamy.
The law in every state prohibits a man or a woman from being married to more than one living person at a time. The crime of having more than one current spouse is called either bigamy (having two spouses) is a subset of the crime of polygamy (having more than one spouse), and the law makes no practical distinction between the two. Even in states that separately criminalize both polygamy and bigamy, either crime is committed when a married person first enters into an unlawful marriage with a second person. However, additional marriages beyond the second would support prosecution for additional criminal counts and possibly a longer sentence.
Most states base their polygamy laws on the Model Penal Code section 230.1, which provides that a person is guilty of the third-degree felony of polygamy if he or she marries or cohabits with more than one spouse at a time in purported exercise of the right of plural marriage. The crime is punishable either by a fine, imprisonment, or both, according to the law of the individual state and the circumstances of the offense. The crime of polygamy is deemed to continue until all Cohabitation with and claim of marriage to more than one spouse terminate. Polygamy laws do not apply to Aliens who are temporarily visiting the United States, provided that polygamy is lawful in their country of origin.
The existence of a valid marriage entered into by the defendant prior to the second valid marriage is an essential element of the offense in every jurisdiction. No particular type of ceremony is required for the first or subsequent marriage before someone can be prosecuted for polygamy. Even persons who satisfy the requirement for a Common-Law Marriage can be prosecuted for entering a subsequent marriage that itself is either another common-law marriage or a traditional marriage.
Cohabitation is not typically a requisite element of the offense. Merely entering into a second marriage with knowledge that one is currently married to another living person will support an indictment for polygamy. An indictment for polygamy will not be found unlawful even if the defendant offers proof that his or her first marriage was a voidable marriage, or one that is valid until annulled. If neither party to a Voidable marriage successfully voids the marriage by obtaining an Annulment, then the remarriage of either constitutes polygamy.
Ordinarily the state in which the polygamous marriage occurred has jurisdiction over prosecution of the crime. Some
only 7 or so states still have common law marriage. The rest have outlawed the practice. (california has “palimony”)
it was from a time where there were no public records, justices of the peace within easy distance, or even a priest. Think untamed wild west.
The dysfunctional group sounds more like a pack of dogs.Bet the kids are confused on mothers day,who’s my mommy?.
The left has no leg to stand on in opposing ANY definition of “marriage” once they reject THE definition of marriage.
Tell them they’d be a “bigot” if they opposed 3 men, 2 women, 4 children and a horse getting “married”.
THe women in that family are as sad and pathetic as The Onion’s old “columnist” Jean Teasdale.
http://www.theonion.com/personalities/jean-teasdale,1021/
THat was my one and only thought before flipping the channel.
Interesting - still recognized in the following States: Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington, D.C.
Polygamy has been around for thousands of years. If Kody really wants that many more MILs let him!
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