Comments about ‘Polygamists plan to take the Hill’

This is one of the first things about Senator Harry Reid that I support...I hope the polygamists are scared

Well of course Polygamists will be at the hearings! Who forgot to tell them that Polygamy is against the law! Intentionally breaking Federal laws and they ALL should be stopped.. We have seen what polygamy has done through generations.. It abuses women and children, and its NOT Religious, Its SICK!
Go Senator Reid!!! YOu have LOTS of AMERICANS behind you and the senate and the Bill your wanting to introduce!!!

Reid is LDS right? It's sad to see that we LDS have turned from being the persecuted to being the persecuters. If we had lived in the days of Brigham Young, would we have been those who persecuted the Saints?

I just don't get it...polygamy is again the law right? Why are these people allowed to repeatedly break the law and get away with it? If the authorities know where the polyamists are why not arrest them for breaking the law, if they were drug dealers they would. A major crackdown is need!

Senator Reid is going to put a stop to this silly situation...

I finally have something to like about Harry Reid.

"I just don't get it...polygamy is again the law right?"

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Yes, shoelover, polygamy is "again" the law, but many suspect that the law is itself "again" the law. That is, it's unconstitutional. So if government enforces the law and it goes to the Supreme Court, government could lose that very law as a tool to persecute the polygamists. Then polygamists would be everywhere, oh my!

One thing I have learned is that it is very hard to assess another culture. We don't have a methodology for assessing and describing the differences.

For example, some people feel the FLDS has violated child labor laws. But, our children sit around playing electronic games all day. It appears to me that perhaps my children are paying a higher price because the labor laws prevent my children from working. They haven't produced something of which to be proud and some would say they have wasted their time. Perhaps the FLDS children were overworked and maybe the FLDS have violated labor laws, but their children may be better off for that. When a group disconnects from the mainstream and builds their own community on things that make sense to them, they are going to have different rules and violate some of ours. We do need people inside these cultures to help us understand them.

The US culture does a great job of giving rights to the less powerful such as children. The FLDS is horrible at this and as a result, judging from Texas demographics, there may be 70 or more statutory rape cases in Utah/Arizona.

just follow the law or are we saying just some of em.

Isn't it interesting that Americans vote for and pass laws that allow same sex marriages to happen, but when it comes to polygamy they get all freaked out?

Bigamy,the act of LEGALLLY marrying more than one person is against the law. The spiritual marriages of claiming someone as your spouse isn't against the law.You can have a wife and as many mistresses as you want as long as you don't marry them legally at the courthouse.

It's like two lesbians calling each other wives in Utah. No they are not legally married, no they aren't breaking a law, they just feel like they are married.

Good for the polygamists, I hope they are allowed to speak. Maybe we wouldn't have so many dumb laws if the lawmakers listened to the actual people who are going to be affected by a particular law.

Polygamy, from the standpoint of multiple civil marriages (possessing a license and filed with the government) is against the law. However, religious polygamy (church only marriages) are not against the law because they aren't recognized by the government. This is one reason why it is so difficult to prosecute. How would you prosecute a man who is legally married to one woman but who has 3 other women living with them that according to the government are not married? In that instance they aren't breaking the law because the husband has not filled multiple marriage licenses. If it is only a religious marriage then they can always scream freedom of religion, as long as they aren't breaking any other laws such as what is currently going on with Warren Jeffs.

ONE state passed a gay marriage law just a thought. That ONE out of 50.
Rodney Holm tried to contest polygamy to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court wouldnt even listen to it.
So, im not worried the Supreme Court will pass a Pro Polygamy law.

common sense | 12:45 p.m.: "Well of course Polygamists will be at the hearings! Who forgot to tell them that Polygamy is against the law! Intentionally breaking Federal laws and they ALL should be stopped.."

Illegally crossing US borders is illegal, too. When are they going to round illegals up and put them in front of a hearing committee?

Answer: Never. The way things are going, these law breakers will not only not have to be grilled, they will get amnesty... off scott free. Some lawbreakers get lucky breaks, some don't. go figure.

Nephi | 12:53 p.m.: "Reid is LDS right? It's sad to see that we LDS have turned from being the persecuted to being the persecutors."

The Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith was reportedly killed at Carthage by former friends and disenfranchised members.

Better be careful if any of the FLDS go to the hearing.
There might be a warrant out for some of them.
Gal, how do your kids play electronic games all day if they don't have tv's?
A child does not waste it's time by not working. There's plenty of time for that when they grow up.
Let them be kids.

Polygamists seem to have a preference for little girls. How can that be defended?

The prophet Joseph Smith showed us the right way and we should up hold it, the true practice of polygamy is God's commandment of man and essential for man's eternal well being. Polygamy should be regulated but not illegal.

Polygamy between adults = why not? But to little grils = no way. Also, if you have so many wives and children then provide for them not collect welfare etc. Tax payers are supporting these so called religions and the Utah AG has side stepped the law in favor of the FLDS