Posted on 03/07/2013 6:09:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Darger and his wife, Vicki, walked through the Capitol shaking hands with lawmakers like any other citizen lobbyist.
What exactly they’re asking their lawmakers to do is a little more unique: decriminalize polygamy.
“The way we are persecuting a particular religious group of people is wrong,” Joe Darger said. “It’s morally wrong, it’s ethically wrong, and we need to look at it. It hasn’t worked for 150 years and we need to change it.”
Darger, a polygamist with three wives, Vicki, Valerie and Alina, is hoping to get lawmakers to start considering the idea of decriminalization. He and Vicki came to the Utah State Capitol carrying copies of a book they wrote about their family, entitled “Love Times Three,” and handed them to lawmakers who stopped to chat with them.
“Right now, it is illegal for me to purport to be married,” Darger told FOX 13. “Simply by me claiming her as my wife, I’m considered a third-degree felon.”
The Darger’s political action comes as a lawsuit is winding its way through U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City that could do the same thing. Reality TV polygamist Kody Brown and his four wives, who star in the cable show “Sister Wives,” are challenging Utah’s ban on polygamy. A federal judge could rule on the case any day now....
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The abnormal are never happy until the normal are forced to accept them. Once they become accepted, they will immediately gain minority status with all the accompanying perks.
Rinse and repeat..... until the new abnormal is the old normal.
Actually; THEIR jesus never left!
John 12:31
Hey, if they want equality, they can get a job and support me.
Tnree chicks gone all day, at least two of em will be too exhausted to do mucj including go on ad nauseum about their crap job and I’ll be guaranteed more relations each week, I’ll get to sleep in while they work and the weekends when they are tired.
Sounds great.../S
It defies reason, IMHO. Can you imagine someone making a statement such as, “I’m completely faithful to all my wives!”
we all should have seen this coming.....not a surprise really
SHKREEEEECH!!!!
out!
The Enabling Act of Congress that allowed Utah into the Union as a State required them to FOREVER foreswear plural marriage. Same goes for Idaho, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
If they do this, they’re back to being a Territory, I guess.
Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch will have to find real work.
AN ACT to enable the People of Utah to form a Constitution and State Government, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.
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The Constitution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and not to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. And said Convention shall provide by ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said State--
First. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; Provided, That polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
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Ma'am; protest all you want, but we are NOT molesting you!
We can, however, go to a DIFFERENT 'state' and molest THEM!
They’ll just do it at the federal level, like they soon will with same sex marriage.
Well, we’ll just have to throw all the bums out then won’t we.
They will always find the same excuses such as they *love* each other, it’s a civil right, everyone else can do it why can’t they, other cultures have done it (ancient Egyptian pharoahs).
Don’t you love how all of the *rational* pragmatists who believe they are being so reasonable by keeping any religious thinking out of their equation end up in a quagmire when they reject the God given and natural definition of family. When they start trying to redefine marriage, where does it end?
“Throw the polygamists in jail.”
Not to make excuses for polygamists but what about all the men who have sex with several women and go on their merry way?
The Enabling Act was and is unConstitutional as it only applied to Utah and not any other state that has since joined the Union.
I think a lot of polygamists would be content if they were simply left alone. IMHO, so long as their marriages are consensual then I see no defensible reason why a man can’t have four wives if he is providing for all of them.
Well look at it this way, at least the wives can have each other to talk to about their feelings, instead of having to talk with the husband about them. ;)
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