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To: concerned about politics
If Utah is growing this fast, they may be the first state to legalize Polygamy.

Not gonna happen. I just moved here to Utah at the first of the year, and the regular Mormons regard polygamists as freaks. I was even in a store yesterday with an ex-Mormon friend, and she pointed out some polygamists that just came in the store, it was like having someone point out to you a green alien with antennae. The Mormons are sick and tired of the polygamy jokes they endure when they go outside of the state, they now have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone who mentions the subject. I have a "Polygamy Porter" beer T-shirt (their motto, 'Why Have Just One?') that I can only wear to the Elks Club, where smoking and drinking go on.

If you want to know why Utah is growing so fast, there are two causes: There has been an influx from California and a few other states, and the locals still breed like Catholics used to do in the fifties. Whenever I go to the supermarket during the daytime, I usually see women with three kids under five in tow, and you know there are more in school from that family. Houses tend to be quite large in the newer subdivisions, a minimum of four bedrooms. You pass school zones every 1000 feet on the arterials, it can be a problem when you have to get somewhere quickly at closing time.

Utah was solidly behind an anti-gay marriage constitutional provision that was on last November's ballot, voters see no connection between their possibly polygamous ancestors of a century or so ago, and homosexual marriage.

40 posted on 04/21/2005 11:38:33 AM PDT by hunter112 (Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
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To: hunter112

You forgot to mention the Churches on almost every block. :)

So...you saw my sister with her 5 kids in the supermarket?


43 posted on 04/21/2005 12:00:16 PM PDT by KurtAZ (So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away)
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