Polygamy Legalized in Utah?

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_Bgood
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Polygamy Legalized in Utah?

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... titutional

More men are opting out of wanting to get married than women. Polygamy would even up things a bit.
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Dallin H Oaks has done his part by being eternally married to two women.
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How long before Utah lowers the age of consent to fourteen years old?
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Re: Polygamy Legalized in Utah?

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from the OP's link:
In a game-changer for the legal fight over same-sex marriage that gives credence to opponents’ “slippery slope” arguments, a federal judge has now ruled that the legal reasoning for same-sex marriage means that laws against polygamy are likewise unconstitutional [...] The Lawrence case lays the foundation that has been cited for a decade now in court to make the case for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. If government cannot forbid homosexual conduct, this argument goes, then neither can it deny those who define themselves by homosexual behavior to officially recognize any such relationship as a marriage.

no advocate for marriage equality has advanced this absurd argument, and no court decision thus far in favor of marriage equality has rested on such "legal reasoning". this "senior legal analyst" is surprisingly ignorant of the topic upon which he's writing.
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