@Jetty We'll build a moat!

There's also a federal statute against marijuana. The question is, how much do we want the Feds sticking their noses into the business of consenting adults, providing nobody's getting hurt? Especially when there's so much right now that they should be doing that's much more important....

@Paul4747 Well, enforcing the constitution and the statutes drawn from it is kind of important. For example, without cases like Miranda vs Arizona or Gideon vs Wainwright, the state’s could violate the rights of the citizens without recourse. That’s why it’s important. You may think that polygamy is alright, but there’s a darker side to this kind of thing. Warren Jeff’s is an example of that.
I grew up in SLC. The crazy polygamists from southern Utah were well known. The LaBaron family was notorious. One of those rabid LaBarons killed several attorneys and officers at the county courthouse when I was in college. There’s also the problem of family assistance being abused by these families. I could care less how consenting adults conduct themselves, and I think Reynolds was particularly wrong with regard to fundamental family units, but that’s immaterial. If you want the law changed, change it. Go to the federal government and have it changed.

@SeaGreenEyez so child sexual enslavement is ok. It’s religious feeedom?

@SeaGreenEyez I wasn’t jumping to conclusions.

@SeaGreenEyez It’s factually associated. How’s that nonsensical?

@SeaGreenEyez [epubs.utah.edu]

@SeaGreenEyez factually incorrect? Really? Tell that to the teenage wives in Hilldale and Colorado city who have been traded between polygamist families and forced into unwanted marriages or the teenage boys that have been kicked out of their homes because the older gents don’t want the competition. They’re literally homeless and unprepared for life in general. There are plenty of articles besides this plus numerous legal assessments from Utah state. But perhaps you just missed that we were talking about a friggin Utah state statute that addresses these particular groups who are quite literally outside the law, and now are encouraged to continue operations with the tacit approval of Utah state. Not Goa, not Guatemala, not khazakstan, not Iceland ... but Utah. Im sure there is some polygamist group that doesn’t abuse kids, but Warren Jeffs and his ilk are not among those. And when you generate a statute that pointedly doesn’t address the crap in Hildale, then you’re morally responsible for your negligence.