Image via WikipediaThis headline caught my eye: “POLYGAMISTS CHALLENGE
It caught my eye because I have been defending the rights of gays to marry and did not see this perfect opportunity for polygamists to demand equal rights. They are not asking us to approve of polygamy; they are asking for the government to de-criminalize it.
When polygamy makes the news, it usually involves a dirty old man marrying a bunch of 14 year old girls which makes him a statutory rapist in this country.
The suit is being brought by a family that stars in the TLC show “SISTER WIVES”. I think there have been other attempts at reality TV showing the inner workings of a polygamous family.
Males in this country may be jealous of the man in the center of a polygamous family but knowing how much trouble some wives can be; how about five of them all at once?
The family is saying “We are only challenging the right of the state to prosecute people for their private relations and demanding equal treatment with other citizens in living their lives according to their own beliefs”.
We have travelled extensively in Utah
As far as religions go, Mormonism is a truly strange one with a drunken founder (Joseph Smith, Jr.) who had visions and a leader (Brigham Young) that led them out west where they would not be persecuted and could practice their religion in peace.
Hey, two candidates for president (Mitt Romney & Jon Huntsman) are Mormons.
Child abuse and underage marriage was what criminalized polygamy so if the participants in a polygamous relationship are all adults and are living this way because of free choice; what is the problem?
We may have opened a can of worms with gay marriage and now we will have to deal with “plural marriage”…what an interesting time we live in.
I will have to ponder this one for some time…
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