Quote: (12-14-2013 08:15 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:
Guys, hate to kill the buzz here but polygamy was not made legal by this ruling. Read the article.
Utah had a much more restrictive anti-polygamy law than other states, prohibiting cohabitation between a man and multiple women -- designed to support the official LDS church position against polygamy in its battle against some glorious old school pro-polygamy diehards. This is the part that was struck down -- you can now cohabit with any number of people you want in Utah just as you can in any other state. You still can't be legally married to more than one person.
The idea that polygamy will be permitted in the US is an absurd fantasy. Forget about the "logic" that if gay "marriage" is OK then why not polygamy? Logic of any kind is beyond irrelevant. Women don't want it so it won't happen and that's all there is to it.
Exactly right. Polygamy is still very much not legal--they just made it legal to live with more than one adult person.
It's absurd that it was ever banned in the first place. Nothing much to see here, if you ask me.