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    From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to All on Wed Feb 19 02:16:01 2020
    Hello Everybody,

    It's not just for Mormons any more!
    And not just for men, but also women!
    Just think of all them horny women,
    each of them having a small harem
    of their own!


    Utah Senate votes to unanimously decriminalize polygamy among
    consenting adults

    Source: Reuters


    BY JENNIFER DOBNER REUTERS
    Posted February 18, 2020 4:29 pm
    Updated February 18, 2020 4:38 pm

    The Utah state Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to effectively
    decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, approving a bill to
    reduce the penalty for plural marriage from a felony to an infraction
    on par with a traffic ticket.

    The Republican-sponsored bill easing the law on polygamy, a practice
    with deep religious roots in the predominantly Mormon Western state,
    now moves to the Utah House of Representatives, where it is likely to
    face greater resistance.

    Under current law, the practice of polygamy in Utah – typically
    involving a man who cohabitates with and purports to marry more than
    one wife – is treated as a third-degree felony punishable by up to
    five years in prison.

    If the newly passed Senate bill becomes law, punishments for plural
    marriage would be limited to fines of up to US$750 and community
    service. No jail time could be imposed.

    Read more:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/6565225/utah-senate-polygamy-decriminalized/

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Lee Lofaso on Wed Feb 19 11:45:55 2020
    On 19/02/2020 11:16, 2203/2 wrote:

    If the newly passed Senate bill becomes law, punishments for plural marriage would be limited to fines of up to US$750 and community
    service. No jail time could be imposed.

    Does that mean that the polygamist would be continually be fined the $750.00 until such time as the extra spouses have been "un-espoused"?

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    David

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Thu Feb 20 17:32:46 2020
    Hello David,

    If the newly passed Senate bill becomes law, punishments for plural
    marriage would be limited to fines of up to US$750 and community
    service. No jail time could be imposed.

    Does that mean that the polygamist would be continually be fined the
    $750.00
    until such time as the extra spouses have been "un-espoused"?

    I dunno. It's a Mormon thing. Not quite sure if that is
    a one-way street or if it cuts both ways.

    Just checked.

    The vote was unanimous, with all sides consenting.

    Now it goes to the House, where everybody likes to play ...

    --Lee

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Lee Lofaso on Thu Feb 20 23:28:34 2020
    My 2 cents worth, having been among Mormons quite a while ...

    I dunno. It's a Mormon thing. Not quite sure if that is
    a one-way street or if it cuts both ways.

    Polygamy was a sort of social-security.

    In the beginning of the LDS-church the trek west was still a significant thing.

    It is often forgotten and nondescribed how many men died, also among settlers, and while generally women did the household, men brought home the bacon.

    So when the husband dropped away, the income dropped away as well and with no organized system of social security it was like "oh shit". So it became accepted behaviour in the LDS-church for a man with the necessary means to take another wife (and her children) whose husband had passed away. It was common practice as well with the plains indian tribes, but nobody references that...

    The same kind of behaviour we saw after WW2 with tens of thousands of women becoming widowed and faced with a loss of the principal breadwinner. Many women remarried, not out of love but out of necessity, and opted to not have the remains of their husbands shipped home because it would be impossible for them to combine a pretty loveless marriage to some guy with a corpse in the local cemetary.

    \%/@rd

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