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Originally Posted by MarginOfError
So because they engage in illegal marriage practices and have far more children than they have resources to support, there must be no wrongdoing in their claims for government assistance? Oh, except that they're breaking the law in a manner that forces them to rely on government assistance.
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Strange we never hear of this in reference to how much the government has to pay for HIV due to people engaging in homosexuality and IV drug use. At least the FLDS are following God's commandments, and the teachings of LDS leaders, and trying to bring spirits into the world.
The mainstream LDS in many cases could learn a thing or two fromt he FLDS. Maybe then we wouldn't be seeing shrinkage of the Church in so many places around the world.
Also, while technically polygamy is not legal in the USA sharing a male and having his children is not illegal, so in essence the wives and children are not breaking any laws. I am remended of a case in Utah where a cop became a polygamist and took a second wife. His boss told him that if he would not call the second wife a "wife" there would be no trouble but he refused on principle and was fired. I guess it's pretty silly that any guy on these boards could take a mistress in addition to his wife (except in Texas where you can't technically have two women under the same roof that you are having sex with) and as long as he called the second woman his mistress the law can't touch him.
You just know in the near future some kooky DA will go after a man with more than one wife and it'll reach the supreme court on appeal and the court will strike down laws against polygamy. I wouldn't doubt this wil come soon and since Obama will appoint justices who support gay marriage these new liberal justices might team up with the more conservative libertarians like Scalia and Thomas and gut these laws.