Sister wives under investigation

[Smoke]

Utah police investigate family featured on TLC

Sister Wives Bigamy Investigation: Lehi Prosecutors Watching Show | DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts - DBKP

According to a report filed by the local Lehi newspaper the Herald Extra on September 29, Utah County prosecutor Tim Taylor doesn’t seem inclined to file charges if there’s evidence of bigamy, filing charges, according to Taylor, ‘opening up a can of worms”.​

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[blackout]

It's funny, I just finished watching Sister Wives for the first time
just a few minutes before you put up this post.

Looking at the whole matter
there is only one legal marriage.
So the rest is really, what?
Adultery in the eyes of the law?
There were no attempts at (fraudulently)
obtaining more than one legal marriage,
so they cannot be charged there.
There are no underage partners.

So all the state really has is "Adultery".
Who prosecutes Adultery?! you know?

How can it be prosecutable polygamy
if he only has one legal wife.

So he has one wife and two (soon to be 3)
committed lovers.
His legal wife is cool with it,
The kids seem well taken care of,
so what business is it of the state?

 

[Smoke]

How can it be prosecutable polygamy
if he only has one legal wife.

That's what I think. Since these are grown women who married him freely, and not minors pressured into marriage, I don't think it's any of the state's business.

 

[Tarheeler]

When Utah declared polygamy illegal in order to gain statehood, they went whole hog with the law. Cohabitation is all it takes to be illegal; they don't require it to be actual marriages.

Pity though. Just another example of the government dictating peoples lives.

 

[blackout]

When Utah declared polygamy illegal in order to gain statehood, they went whole hog with the law. Cohabitation is all it takes to be illegal; they don't require it to be actual marriages.

Pity though. Just another example of the government dictating peoples lives.

So it's cohabitation that's illegal?

meaning what?

People can't live together there
outside of legal wedlock?

 

[Tarheeler]

So it's cohabitation that's illegal?

meaning what?

People can't live together there
outside of legal wedlock?

Not exactly. Polygamy is illegal, but they use cohabitation of more than two people as evidence of the crime.

So, as in Sister Wife, there is only one official marriage. But he is cohabitating with the others which the state sees as evidence of polygamy.

 

[linwood]

Not exactly. Polygamy is illegal, but they use cohabitation of more than two people as evidence of the crime.

So, as in Sister Wife, there is only one official marriage. But he is cohabitating with the others which the state sees as evidence of polygamy.

The state wouldn`t ever dare to prosecute this.

They`d be overturned and declared unconstitutional on the first appeal.

That`s why they aren`t going to prosecute.

 

[stillsearching]

They won't prosecute. There are so many people that still practice polygamy that unless there is something wrong (children being abused, etc) then they won't do anything about it.

 

[Smoke]

The state wouldn`t ever dare to prosecute this.

They`d be overturned and declared unconstitutional on the first appeal.

I certainly hope so.

 

[Gunfingers]

It oughta be illegal to ruin a good one-male/many-female polyamorous relationship with marriage, though.

 

[tomato1236]

Wow. With all the crap the LDS get over the polygamy thing, I'm surprised at how supportive you all are of it.

 

[Duck]

Wow. With all the crap the LDS get over the polygamy thing, I'm surprised at how supportive you all are of it.

I personally don't have a beef with polygamy, nor with the previous LDS support of polygamy. My beef with the LDS church is mostly related to their blatantly bigoted stance when it comes to LGBT secular equality.

 

[Tarheeler]

Wow. With all the crap the LDS get over the polygamy thing, I'm surprised at how supportive you all are of it.

Not everyone thinks that the entire population should be forced to live by their values. I might not personally be in favor of polygamy, but that doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.

 

[Smoke]

Wow. With all the crap the LDS get over the polygamy thing, I'm surprised at how supportive you all are of it.

I have concerns about fundamentalist sects that pressure young girls into marriage and shun their excess boys. But I support the right of adults to live as they damned well choose without being harassed by the state.

 

[linwood]

Wow. With all the crap the LDS get over the polygamy thing, I'm surprised at how supportive you all are of it.

The crap the LDS gets over their previous stance on polygamy comes mostly from other Christian denominations.

 

[tomato1236]

The crap the LDS gets over their previous stance on polygamy comes mostly from other Christian denominations.

Oh. I see.