After Utah decriminalized polygamy, some
see a culture shift
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/24/2022 3:11:07 PM
Hildale, Utah—Marion Timpson’s own marriages reflect Utah’s recent legal battles over polygamy. “I married Holly in 2005 and Katie in 2013, and I married Lisa in 2014,” the polygamist told FOX 13 News, referring to his wives. One of his marriages took place shortly after a federal judge struck down Utah’s anti-polygamy laws. Reality TV polygamist Kody Brown and his wives sued the state and won, effectively decriminalizing plural marriage as a religious belief. (Snip)“Bigamy had been a felony in Utah since 1935 and it clearly didn’t do what the law, I think, or the people who put that law intended it for it do.
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Utah, which bestowed Pierre Delecto on the nation, is in dire need of Somali diversification. Let's hope the LDS church "participates" in the federal refugee relocation program the way the compromised Catholic and the compromised Lutheran church charities do.