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Commentary
Utah is considering decriminalizing polygamy. The right wants to blame marriage equality.
The state’s strong conservative leadership would have you believe that marriage equality inevitably caused legislators’ complex relationship with plural marriages.
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News (World)
Chechnya is forcing divorced couples into polygamy to stop kids from becoming ‘extremist’
Information Minister Dzhambulat Umarov said around 1,000 families have been “reunited,” calling the scenes “the most beautiful and romantic melodrama.”
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News (USA)
Polygamous families protest bigamy law in Utah: ‘If we were gay, we’d be OK’
The demonstration comes a month after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Kody Brown and his four wives on the TLC show “Sister Wives” challenging Utah’s bigamy law.
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News (USA)
Aww! Kentucky judge says he ‘can’t hug the way he used to’ because gay marriage
Family court Judge Tom Philpot says same-sex marriage is an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp” or a “magnificent Chihuahua.”
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News (USA)
Gay couple divorces after one year to invite third man into relationship
A year after saying “I do,” Adam and Shayne met Sebastian at a nightclub…
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News (USA)
‘Sister Wives’ cite gay marriage ruling in polygamy case
A polygamous family says legalizing same-sex marriage shows that laws prohibiting consensual adult relationships are outdated
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No, Ben Carson… same-sex marriage will not lead to polygamy
So let’s answer the question once and for all: why is same-sex marriage different from polygamous marriage?
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News (USA)
80 Utah lawmakers warn Supreme Court that gay marriage could lead to polygamy, incest
SALT LAKE CITY — Eighty members of the Utah state legislature have filed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal appeals court ruling striking down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban, because allowing gay to marry could lead to incestuous and polygamous marriages. The amicus brief supporting Utah’s appeal asserts that the …
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News (USA)
63 Texas lawmakers compare same-sex marriage to incest, pedophilia, polygamy
AUSTIN, Texas — More than 60 Texas lawmakers have signed on to a legal brief comparing same-sex marriage to incest, pedophilia, and polygamy. Lone Star Q reports that 63 legislators — members of the Texas Conservative Coalition — signed the brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit to uphold Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage.