Yeager: Might want to talk to a latter day mormon miko. The mormon church discontinued the practice years ago under pressure from the federal government.
Nevertheless thousands of people living in Utah and calling themselves mormons continue to practice polyginy.
Polygamy is unlawful in Utah today, as it is throughout the US.
Not unlawfull - just not legally recognised. There is a difference. When AH players form a squad, that is not legally recognised by the state but it is not unlawfull.
A man is not breaking any laws by living in a single household with several women, having sex and children with them, etc., as long as they do not apply for multiple marriage licenses. They are just not recognised by the state and feds as legal wives for the purposes of inheritance, insurance, etc.
There are some fringe offshoots of the mormon church that practice polygamy in hiding.
They are not really hiding. There are whole towns of them with civic leaders being polyginists as well. The numbers are estimated to be around 30,000 but they are not advertising themselves, so it may be a low estimate.
One media case several years ago landed the happy husband in prison. Turns out one of his many wives hadnt yet started puberty.
Having sex with people below the age of concent is unlawfull and punisheable. It has nothing to do with polyginy. That man would have gone to jail if his bride was the only wife.
There is a lot of atricious and abusive crap going on among some mormons and othes but it is not caused by polyginy but by their religious and cultural views.
Its all quite interesting, Im just waiting for polygamy to rear its inevitable head once again.
Most of the US and western world is widely practice serial polygamy - even catholics who's church totally bans the practice of unsanctified marriage or divorce.
What's a big deal if some people practice parallel marriage?
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