[AveMaria]

[.....Regarding the right of privacy, polygamy and bigamy are legal states, not sex acts, and inapposite....]

In some parts of Utah (especially near the border with Arizona), there are many men who live polygamous lives, although their "marriages" are not formally recognized by the state of Utah or the federal government. The state of Utah has anti-polygamy laws on the books, although they are rarely enforced.

But in the other 49 states of the country, anti-polygamy laws are strictly and rigorously enforced, and in spite of the fact that such "marriages" are not officially recognized, polygamists go to jail, anyway.

When a state enforces laws against polygamy (despite the fact that American polygamists only recognize their unions within their religious traditions), the state is undertaking an action similar to enforcement of sodomy laws.

The overturning of such laws should be left to the legislative process.

[Torie]

anti-polygamy laws are strictly and rigorously enforced

Just how are they enforced? A guy is arrested for living with several women of whom he refers as his wives? I suspect the laws are enforced by not allowing someone to legally marry while married to someone else. That is it. This whole "debate" just gets curiouser and curiouser. It must be something in the water, because what Santorum said was mad, and now he seems to be a pied piper leading others down the same path as those sheep ran down when herding by the dogs in the opening scene of "Far From the Madding Crowd."