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TreadSoftly

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31. could lead to interesting tax and estate planning challenges nt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 10:25 PM

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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