Posted on 12/14/2013 10:50:10 AM PST by TigerClaws
What consenting adults do in their own homes is their business. Get someone to wave a wand over your heads and you are a unit, couple, pair, etc . . . A private affair the state has no business in.
Every legal claim they want can be accomplished with a little legal planning and contracts.
Legal and religious marriages are VERY different.
The State has an interest in what’s best for the State, and rewards/punishes to that end. The State can also NOT discriminate in many areas.
If one man/one woman is not marriage, anything and everything is possible.
Marry all your children and pass on everything inheritance tax free!
Those FLDS members in TX were sucking up every welfare entitlement they could get their hands on.
Polygamy is certainly less unnatural than the bizarre and ludicrous concept that persons of the same sex can be “married.” Bravo Judge!
Yo, ho, ho and the canary’s next!
The Mormon high command in Salt Lake City gave up on polygamy more than a century ago. Practicing (however unofficially) polygamists in Utah are actively suppressed. Therefore, Waddoups is doing this, not as a Mormon, but as a social revolutionary. Hide your household pets before he strikes again.
Yes, it was.
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