All I Know Is, major dad Brings Home a Busty Blonde from the Winn Dixie?
I don’t care WHAT the “law” says.
I can GUAR-AN-DAMN-TEE you, my reaction makes the front page of the next day’s paper.
Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional
District court ruling finds key parts of Utah polygamy laws unconstitutional.A U.S. District Court judge has sided with the polgyamous Brown family, ruling that key parts of Utah’s polygamy laws are unconstitutional.
Judge Clark Waddoups’ 91-page ruling, issued Friday, sets a new legal precedent in Utah, effectively decriminalizing polygamy. It is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by the family of Kody Brown, who became famous while starring in cable TV channel TLC’s reality series “Sister Wives.” The show entered a fourth season at the end of the summer.
Waddoups’ ruling attacks the parts of Utah’s law making cohabitation illegal. In the introduction, Waddoups says the phrase “or cohabits with another person” is a violation of both the First and 14th amendments. Waddoups later writes that while there is no “fundamental right” to practice polygamy, the issue really comes down to “religious cohabitation.” In the 1800s — when the mainstream LDS Churh still practiced polygamy — “religious cohabitation” in Utah could have actually resulted in “multiple purportedly legal marriages.” Today, however, simply living together doesn’t amount to being “married,” Waddoups writes.
He can religiously co-habitate with whoever he wants. He’s got a four-door sedan. LOTS of room.
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December 14, 2013 9:40 am
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Amazing how all of these ‘rights’ just seem to pop up out of the Constitution when needed.
Pedant ON: The Mormons, and most other groups (see Muslims) do not practice polygamy. They very strictly practice polygyny (multiple wives).
Want to get rid of most polygamous groups? Just require that in any polygamous group, the wife has an ABSOLUTE legal right to take a second husband (or third, forth, fifth). Polyandry rules!
Nip that one right in the bud (except among some of the weirder hippies – and they’d be too busy having orgies to cause any problems). 😛
What if Major Dad brings home a slender redhead? Is there some room for negotiation?
;P
Only if Sis can bring in a tall muscular redhead (blond, whatever…or a short, grey-haired nerd – whatever she wants.) 😛
Equality, baby. 😀
The US is moving closer and closer to Germany’s legal dilemma. There’s a case there where a brother and sister are married.Their children have several birth defects, yet there’s no legal reason they can’t marry.”Welcome to a world with no truth or God.”