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Polygamy Attorney On Gay Marriage Decision: SCOTUS Opinion ‘Resonates With Our Arguments’
The Daily Caller ^ | June 26, 2015 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 06/26/2015 10:28:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Could Friday’s Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country make polygamous marriage a legal reality nationwide in the near future?

Jonathan Turley, the attorney who won the polygamy marriage case in Utah for Kody Brown and his four “Sister Wives” thinks the majority opinion “resonates” with the arguments he made to the Utah Supreme Court to decriminalize polygamous consensual relationships.

“The cases are actually different in that the Brown case is about the criminalization while today’s case was about recognition. We have not argued for recognition of plural marriages. Indeed, the Browns have never asked for multiple marriage licenses,” Turley said in an e-mail statement to The Daily Caller.

“Like many plural families, they have one state license for one marriage but chose to live as a plural family with “spiritual marriages.” In that sense, our case is more like Lawrence v. Texas that was handed down ten years ago.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; polygamy; ssm; supremecourt
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To: ansel12

Wow that is one Ghey picture, all the colors of the rainbow...

21 posted on 06/26/2015 11:00:11 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a hard thing to prove.

My guess is that many buddies and girl friend roommates and friends, will be getting married for benefits now that sex doesn’t matter.


22 posted on 06/26/2015 11:00:26 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: dfwgator

[ Why not? You might as well make it carte blanche and allow any arrangement between any number of consenting adults to be considered legal, it’s not any more silly than allowing two persons of the same sex to marry. ]

Imagine a jihadi commign here with 4 of his siters, marryign all of them and then marrying his own daughters.....

And we would be haters for opposing it,,,

Oh and they would all get welfare....

Sweet dreams, i mean Bitter nightmares...


23 posted on 06/26/2015 11:02:06 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: ansel12

I could’ve easily married many a Korean girl, some were offered to me as a way to get them to the states and into college cheaper than bribing all the immigration officials in Korea and the United States and I would have been paid a hefty sum by the father in addition to the Army benefits.


24 posted on 06/26/2015 11:02:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: faithhopecharity

Well, plus he was a charismatic cult/religious leader. Most of us don’t aspire to such things.


25 posted on 06/26/2015 11:04:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: GraceG

It is a pretty amazing look, for sure, bland.

It gives the impression that Warren could make Thai food, as bland as cream of wheat.


26 posted on 06/26/2015 11:08:19 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: ansel12

[ It gives the impression that Warren could make Thai food, as bland as cream of wheat.
]
His Sriracha would be pastel red coloured water...


27 posted on 06/26/2015 11:10:58 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can I have multiple husbands? On second thought... I don’t want to have to wash all those dirty shorts....


28 posted on 06/26/2015 11:14:04 PM PDT by ponygirl (Put. A. Bird. On. It.)
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To: ponygirl

Get “sister-wives” to do the laundry. LOL


29 posted on 06/26/2015 11:14:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Polygamy is better than homosexual marriage. There is simply no justification for denying polygamy if the SCOTUS has given homosexuals a constitutional right to have the state recognize their marriage.

There is also no justification for a marriage between 4 or 6 people. Bisexuals can’t have equal rights unless they are able to marry both a man and a woman.

The SCOTUS decision is the most unconstitutional usurpation of power in the history of the republic.

We must not let this stand!


30 posted on 06/26/2015 11:21:16 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyranny is obedience to God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marry your kids in a sexless marriage.

Avoid inheritance taxes.


31 posted on 06/26/2015 11:21:53 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: faithhopecharity
Great! I’ll take 23 young ones. Make them pretty too!!!

Our stay in Salt Lake City amounted to only two days, and therefore we had no time to make the customary inquisition into the workings of polygamy and get up the usual statistics and deductions preparatory to calling the attention of the nation at large once more to the matter.

I had the will to do it. With the gushing self-sufficiency of youth I was feverish to plunge in headlong and achieve a great reform here—until I saw the Mormon women. Then I was touched. My heart was wiser than my head. It warmed toward these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely" creatures, and as I turned to hide the generous moisture in my eyes, I said, "No--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence."

Mark Twain

32 posted on 06/26/2015 11:25:48 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyranny is obedience to God!)
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To: umgud
How can they reconcile SSM with sharia law? Will mosques be exempt from orders to marry gays?

There are many gays who would be willing to approach the local mosque and ask to be married. Pass the popcorn.

33 posted on 06/26/2015 11:44:15 PM PDT by Boojum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup...and you are going to get gay polygamous marriages as well. SCROTUS just opened a Pandora’s Box for all manner of fraud and abuse. I imagine that you’ll have group sham marriages for purposes of securing benefits from employers and the government. When this happens, employers are going to have an impossible time figuring out how to handle those benefits and Social Security is going to be screwed.


34 posted on 06/27/2015 12:18:44 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: pepsionice
I’ll go ahead and predict by 2025....we’ve got a hundred guys around the US, who are married to twenty-plus women. All legit of course...<<

I don't think u get it...do you think their taxes would be less???....lol...

35 posted on 06/27/2015 12:34:15 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the Dam Breaks, everyone Drowns.

There is no way that Polygamous Marriage and Incestuous Marriage can be denied thanks to today’s SCOTUS Ruling.

Just imagine when a dozen (or more) Women file for Social Security Survivor Benefits when their Polygamous Husband Dies. Let’s say he was getting $2,000 a Month. Now SS will have to pay out $24,000 a Month to his Surviving Widows.

Oh yeah, don’t forget about any Children under 18 in the Household. They get a SS Check Survivor Check too.

The fun never ends when you have unintended consequences.


36 posted on 06/27/2015 12:35:52 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Obama speaks, Fools Listen and Bootlickers Obey..)
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To: M-cubed

Look at the tax form. Wives and kids equal credits. The IRS guys will freak out when you start to see three wives and eight kids as credits, but it’ll all be legit. The curious I’ll wonder about....how the health insurance guys handle a guy with ten dependents. Will AHCA actually work then, and just how much will the govenrnment have to cover in extra costs?


37 posted on 06/27/2015 12:40:21 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These lawyers don’t apparently understand. The Supreme Court couldn’t care less about the law or constitution. Seriously!

Both sides in the gay “marriage” debate act as though the (in-)justices carefully considered the piles and piles of legal arguments and reached an impartial decision. They did not. They knew the outcome they wanted, and they implemented it. They could have ruled on DAY ONE, but that would reveal the truth of how arbitrary the “law” really is in this day age.

No. The process is designed to make it seem as though they’re carefully considering everything in order to lend weight to the final decision (which was already made of course). In fact, they just need time to write their excuses.

Therefore, if the Supreme Court doesn’t want polygamy, we won’t have polygamy regardless of arguments for or against it. I personally think they’ll tell the polygamists to shove off, but who knows with this court?


38 posted on 06/27/2015 12:41:42 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: P-Marlowe

“There is simply no justification for denying polygamy if the SCOTUS has given homosexuals a constitutional right to have the state recognize their marriage.”

Except there was no justification for homosexual marriage either. They make it up as they go, P-Marlowe. The lesbians/feminists on the court probably oppose polygamy and the conservatives oppose adding more rights to the 14th’s penumbras of emanations, so I don’t think there’s enough votes to pass polygamous marriage.

BTW, I intentionally used the word, votes, because the Supreme Court is no such thing. It’s a supreme legislative body.


39 posted on 06/27/2015 12:51:31 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“There is no way that Polygamous Marriage and Incestuous Marriage can be denied thanks to today’s SCOTUS Ruling.”

LOL! I’m sorry, but I don’t think you clearly understand the situation. They rule however they want. Today’s ruling will be ignored (if that’s what they want), just like they ignored all previous rulings, including one that said homosexual sodomy—much less marriage—is not constitutionally protected.


40 posted on 06/27/2015 12:57:12 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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