[tiamat]

Are you referring to the Kingston family in Utah?

If so , that "patriarch" had taken to wife and consumated marriage with a neice of his when she was about 14. The "marriage" had been contracted by her father, the groom's brother.

To me, this sounds like Islam.

Many of the polygamous marriages, particularly if they involve the Kingstons, ( a HUGE family in Utah! ) are simply welfare scams. The wives and kids are all on the dole while "Daddy" lives high and drives a fancy car.

NOT a good deal or right by my lights.

Tia

[Elsie]

 

Many of the polygamous marriages, particularly if they involve the Kingstons, ( a HUGE family in Utah! ) are simply welfare scams.

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Exactly!!!

 

NONE of this is about "marriage"; it's all about the "benefits" of marriage.

 

If our Nation didn't have such screwed up ways to steal our money from us in the form of 'taxes', there'd be NO clamor for any 'schemes' to get it back 'legally'!

[Noachian]

No, it wasn't the Kingston family in Utah. I remember the TV stories about them.

The guy I was thinking of wasn't part of a large, Kingston type, famiily. He had a job, everyone lived together in the same house, but he WAS getting some government assistance. He's serving prison time right now for bigamy.

The point is that in the TV interviews all the wives were adults and none were forced into marriage. They volunteered. So, given the high courts ruling about privacy I wondered how that ruling would effect consensual polygamy especially in Utah.

Polygamy was part of the Mormon faith, and if marriage is redefined then I'd expect the Mormons to reintroduce polygamy to their faith.