HBO is now airing a polygamy show “Big Love.”

I’ve been thinking about polygamy lately and I’m irriated with the State of Utah’s irresponsibility in dealing with this problem. So, I just registered ENDPOLYGAMY.COM. I’ve love to end polygamy (at least in Utah), but if I only manage to pester a few Polygamists, I’ll have succeeded.

Polygamy, as practiced today in Utah, is nothing more than a felonious racket covering brainwashing, tax evasion, and child and wife abuse.

How to end Polygamy. Brain storming session:

Plan 1
1- Utah annexation of Colorado City, AZ. joined to hildale
2- stop welfare to both cities, stop tax breaks to unfinished houses
2.5- Utah governor declares martial law
3- call out national guard — arrest every male and female over 18 in Hilsdale/Colorado City, book all at jail/holding place for child abuse
4- social services takes all children (minors) and interviews (phychologists and social workers) to build cases against parents. Children then sent to foster care and eventually adopted
5-search warrents issued against homes of leaders (prophet and apostle) and all church marriage records seized to be used against the mothers and fathers
6-by eminent domain, declare both cities to be the new location of a landfill — demolish all houses.

Plan 2- (admittedly less draconian)
1-replace city government
2-mandate education (on anti-polygamy, free speach, freedom)
3-cultural education: give out free newspapers and magazines
4-provide free internet

We should be able to bust polygamists if we can prove common-law marriage, but unfortunatly, you cannot enter a common law marriage unless you are over 18. Still, we can bust those polygamists who are not marrying minors.

(In Utah) For a common-law marriage to be legal and valid, “a court or administrative order must establish that it arises out of a contract between a man and a woman” who: (1) “are of legal age and capable of giving consent”; (2) “are legally capable of entering a solemnized marriage under the provisions of Title 30, Chap. 1 of the Utah Code; (3) “have cohabited”; (4) “mutually assume marital rights, duties, and obligations”; and (5) “who hold themselves out as and have acquired a uniform and general reputation as husband and wife” (See Utah Code Ann. 30-1-4.5 (2004)).
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Related Links
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Against Polygamy

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