Polygamy.

[GoPro]

Caught half way through the show-documentary in A&E, Escaping Polygamy. Like most of you I have heard and know about it but shockingly surprised still going on. Uncles marrying 14 year olds, many with 20 plus wives and 50 to 300 children. Physical and mental abuse on young girls and are brainwashed that if they leave they are going to hell.

I can Google it and find all the facts but wondering if there are any here that know who has gone through this, to hear first hand truth of all. Or those educated on it?.

I know there is some law in Utah that the federal government cannot interfere. But if everyone is jumping on rights of the poor, gays, transgenders, handicaps, even animals, etc... Why can't something be done to protect these young victims?.

 

[Admiral]

It's not only in Utah.

 

[Boing]

:aggressive2:

 

[Hoser]

I googled it and cannot believe what I read.

Polygamy is legal in nearly 50 out of 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim majority countries. In most of these states,polygyny is allowed and legally sanctioned. Polyandry is illegal in virtually every state in the world. The majority of the world's countries do not recognize polygamous marriages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_polygamy

Polygamy is the practice of taking more than one spouse. Polygyny is the specific practice of one man taking more than one wife: it is a common marriage pattern in some parts of the world. In North America polygamy has not been a culturally normative or legally recognized institution since the continent's colonization by Europeans.

Polygamy became a significant social and political issue in the United States in 1852, when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) made it known that a form of the practice, called plural marriage, was part of its doctrine. Opposition to the practice by the United States government resulted in an intense legal conflict, and culminated in LDS Church president Wilford Woodruff announcing the church's official abandonment of the practice on September 25, 1890.[SUP][1][/SUP]

However, breakaway Mormon fundamentalist groups living mostly in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico still practice plural marriage.
Some other Americans practice polygamy including some American Muslims.[SUP][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_North_America

[/SUP]
Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional

Utah's anti-polygamy law is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled this week. State Attorney General Sean Reyes has already said that he plans to appeal the decision.

In December, U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups said that the state could keep the ban, but would not be allowed to arrest people who violate it by living together in common-law marriage situations. This week Waddoups followed that decision with a ruling that the state had violated the religious, free speech, and due process rights of the plaintiffs. The state also owes them court fees, said Waddoups.

The plaintiffs are Kody Brown, star of the TLC reality series Sister Wives, his legal wife Meri, and three other women -- Janelle, Christine, and Robyn -- who claim to be three other wives of Brown. The four have 17 children.
The Browns sued the state of Utah in 2011 after the show appeared on the air because their now-public lifestyle broke state law, and a county prosecutor threatened charges. They moved to Las Vegas that same year to avoid prosecution.

In a statement, the family's lawyer said that the ruling was "historic," and he believed "will stand the test of time."

As LifeSiteNews reported last year, Waddoups' decision may have significant consequences for decreasing equality in marriage and society at large, not increasing it. As Dr. Jennifer Morse of the Ruth Institute said, the December "ruling confuses the private desires of individuals with the institution of marriage as a whole."

“I have no doubt that these individual women and Mr. Brown are living this plural marriage lifestyle voluntarily," said Morse. "What I dispute is that they are the only ones affected by changing the law to permit plural cohabitation or plural marriage.”

“Polygamous societies look very different from monogamous societies,” she explained. “In polygamous societies, wealthy men are at a huge competitive advantage over men of average means. The wealthy men, in effect, take more than their share of women. This triggers a whole series of reactions.

The society begins to sanction the marriage of younger and younger women, sometimes no more than girls, to satisfy the demand for brides. The men grow more and more possessive and treat women more like possessions and less like people.”

 

[Creepy]

Come on, surely there must be at least one here that knows someone?.

 

[User-E]

https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?106452-Polyamorous-relationships

 

[Mariner]

But if everyone is jumping on rights of the poor, gays, transgenders, handicaps, even animals, etc... Why can't something be done to protect these young victims?.

Trans folk seem to dominate the news these days, yet they comprise .2% of the population

 

[Stubby]

Trans folk seem to dominate the news these days, yet they comprise .2% of the population

Why would that be :unknw:

 

[Mariner]

Why would that be :unknw:

No idea. You tell me

 

[Candyman]