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23. I'll be shocked if they pull this off...

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 08:02 PM

Feb 2020

“The Church” as LDS members call it, has worked to separate itself from the FLDS and other kook splinter groups that claim the true lineage back to old Joe Smith. So this is about power as much as anything. Now my great grandfather who spent three years in the state pen would have been thrilled. He could have kept all four of his wives... crazy.

I wonder how Mittens feels about this?

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Utah Senate votes to unanimously decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2020 OP

I lived in Utah customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #1

Great. Only the way they practice it out there, it is usually not among consenting adults. Squinch Feb 2020 #2

Old - Grown enough to marry keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #10

+1 2naSalit Feb 2020 #13

Even if legally,adults there may not be consent. alphafemale Feb 2020 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author softydog88 Feb 2020 #3

that is what I thought rurallib Feb 2020 #12

Well, sorta. TomSlick Feb 2020 #25

Ah....those pressing needs are being met in Utah Hulk Feb 2020 #4

It ain't women. It's little girls usually. Squinch Feb 2020 #14

How progressive of them! Canoe52 Feb 2020 #5

Didn't they oppose gay marriage on the grounds that marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman? RockRaven Feb 2020 #6

Good move Warpy Feb 2020 #7

I have no problem with polygamy... TomVilmer Feb 2020 #8

Child rape. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #9

Of course! Mormon men are like trRUMP; they like to grab them some pussy and more is better. abqtommy Feb 2020 #11

Probably not. 2naSalit Feb 2020 #16

Which spouse is the official/legal spouse? keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #15

I want to see what they think of a woman with two (or more) husbands. catrose Feb 2020 #18

I eagerly await the response from the rest of the "one-man-one-woman" Religious Right jmbar2 Feb 2020 #19

Well I certainly can't speak for all of them OriginalGeek Feb 2020 #38

If they can all be married legally, and none are on welfare olddad65 Feb 2020 #20

I think marriage is going the way of the dinosaurs anyway. A lot of twenty somethings I know yaesu Feb 2020 #21

Sex perverts hiding behind religion to rape kids Submariner Feb 2020 #22

I'll be shocked if they pull this off... BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #23

It was only a matter of time. "Consenting adults" and all that. oldsoftie Feb 2020 #24

Goes both ways? A woman can have multiple husbands too? Only Fair IADEMO2004 Feb 2020 #26

will other states be expected to honor these marriages? 0rganism Feb 2020 #27

Wasn't the abolition of polygamy a condition of statehood? JDC Feb 2020 #28

The one is more than enough for me. Marcuse Feb 2020 #29

I dare them to I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2020 #30

could lead to interesting tax and estate planning challenges nt TreadSoftly Feb 2020 #31

If God is on your side you can do anything eom MAMMAG8R Feb 2020 #32

Will that include forced marriages with underage girls? Nitram Feb 2020 #33

Frankly I've never really thought it should be illegal as long as everyone's 18 or over myself nt mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #34

Sounds like an excellent way to incubate abuses....Mr. Patriarch at the top. Patriarchy isn't Karadeniz Feb 2020 #35

Can someone explain something to me? jgmiller Feb 2020 #36

Goose and Gander? orangecrush Feb 2020 #37

The great, but sort of forgotten TV show Picket Fences did an episode on this some 25 years ago RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #39

Hard to get much more "traditional marriage" than that Recursion Feb 2020 #40