British Columbia’s attorney general decided last week to turn to the Supreme Court of B.C. for an opinion on whether that law was constitutionally valid.
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From the category archives:
Legalization
During a conference Friday on polygamy and the law, representatives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office, defense attorneys and pro-polygamy activists met at Snowbird to talk about decriminalization and other issues. “We need a test case. We need it decriminalized. People need to see that there are families out there that would be a good representation of the plural communities and we just live our lives like everybody else and that’s the only law we break.”
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Looks like a historic legal battle is shaping up over polygamy, the outcome of which will surely be determined by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Some 40,000 people in the US state of Utah live in illegal polygamous families in which a man takes more than one wife. These fundamentalist Mormons have now begun a campaign for a change in the law they regard as discriminatory and unfair.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is stepping away from merely observing the situation involving the hundreds of children placed in state protective custody in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s YFZ Ranch. The ACLU of Texas filed a brief Thursday with the Texas Supreme Court, siding with a group of mothers seeking the immediate return of their children.
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The laws against polygamy are holdovers from a dark ages where homosexuality and interracial marriages were similarly outlawed. The proponents of outlawing homosexuality and interracial marriage could point to many problems associated with those practice when they were outlawed. However, upon close inspection, all of the violence, degradation, social harms, and psychological problems associated with these former illegal activities were in fact caused by their prohibition. The same is true of polygamy.
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Some of us seriously question whether it is constitutional to outlaw polygamy without having proof of abuse of children. The Supreme Court did that in the 1800s. And many of us have questioned that. Because consenting adults are usually allowed to pick their life style particularly if it’s religious-based.
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This is not a “polygamy oriented” article but so many of our readers are homeschoolers that I felt compelled to publish this vital information.
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