ST. GEORGE – Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told a crowd of approximately 300 during a town hall meeting at the Dixie Center on Thursday that the state does not have plans to follow Texas’ lead by conducting a raid of polygamist communities.
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Should people be free to set up cults, to live undisturbed to practice their religion, to deviate from mainstream ethical codes? Certainly if we believe in freedom, people should be able to do this. In fact, the group was already under a great deal of pressure to reform from the outside and inside, with former members of the group reporting despotic control by the leader and many men who had been excommunicated putting pressure on those inside to leave. We don’t know whether the entire matter – if indeed abuse was taking place – might have been handled in this way, because the state intervened to impose the cruelest possible solution: namely, taking children from their mothers’ arms and putting them in the hands of government social workers.
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What is in it for the heterosexual woman? Why have I sought out a polygamous relationship with a heterosexual sister wife and a married man?
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Why are we all so coy about the thought of men having other women in their lives? That’s the way they’re designed. Wouldn’t it be better to accept that the male of the species should be allowed to have several wives? Clinton should have been allowed to marry Monica and enjoy his polygamy.
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Men in the contemporary U.S. and Western Europe aren’t exactly polygynous. It’s not like they have several wives. They divorce and remarry. Or they have wives-and girlfriends on the side. That’s not polygyny. Is it?
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Last month I made my way to Rawang, a town some 50 kilometres from KL city, to meet up with the club founder and some of her followers and family members. It was one of the most unusual interviews I have ever done.
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Life is not easy for a single mother, I’ve heard. Dating is a pain, making ends meet is a pain, providing a good masculine influence for both son and daughter is a pain. But the government doesn’t want just any old Muslim dudes to take these ladies off the market. They want guys who have solid government jobs and presumably some level of accountability.
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The issue of polygamy is being hotly debated now, with the controversial Kelantan official’s suggestion and the emergence of a Polygamy Club founded in August by the wife of a polygamist.
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Why We Don’t Need To Make Polygamy A Crime
by Staff on February 15, 2010
A man can have sex with as many women as he likes. But he can’t marry more than one. If we don’t have a good reason to discriminate, then we probably shouldn’t.
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