'SISTER WIVES' HUSBAND TO CHALLENGE Utah's POLYGAMY LAW !!!!

[Daanyeer]

By John Stevens

12th July 2011



The polygamous family who star in the reality TV show 'Sister Wives' are set to challenge Utah's bigamy law.

Kody Brown and his four wives will tomorrow file a lawsuit contesting the law, which makes their lifestyle illegal.
The 42-year-old, his wives and their sixteen children and step-children moved to Nevada in January after police launched a bigamy investigation.



Mr Brown is only legally married to his first wife Meri, but in Utah a person can be found guilty of bigamy through cohabitation, no just legal marriage contracts.

Bigamy is a third-degree felony in the state.

The Browns will challenge the Utah's right to prosecute people for their private relationships.


Mr Brown said: 'We only wish to live our private lives according to our beliefs.'

The family are members of the Apostolic United Brethren Church, a fundamentalist sect that broke away from the Mormon Church when it gave up polygamy in the 1890s.

They plan to argue that a ban on polygamous marriage violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, as well as the free exercise, establishment, free speech and freedom of association clauses of the First Amendment.

Mr Brown and his wives have been under investigation since they became the focus of a reality TV show screened on TLC.

Soon after the show was first broadcast in 2010, officials announced they were investigating the family for violating the state law prohibiting polygamy.

There are estimated to be 35,000 people living in polygamous relationships in the U.S., despite it being illegal.
The Browns said that they agreed to be filmed for the reality series to show people how polygamous families work.
'The [polygamist] society tends to be fairly closed,' Mr Brown said.


'We figured that just by being an example of that, by showing our lives, we'd actually help the society be more transparent, have other people in the lifestyle feel safer about being transparent.'
Mr Brown spends each night with a different wife who each have a separate section of a large house

But the wives explained that when they marry into a polygamous family, they're not just marrying the husband - they're marrying the whole family.
'It's definitely a bonding experience', Meri said. 'We're sisters in that sense, and we're very close.
Janelle added: 'If we raise productive, contributing members of society who are moral and ethical, that's our final goal, whatever their path is,' says the mother of six of Kody's 16 children.



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[sexy-kitten]

If he wins this case, he will open the ultimate pandora's box walle. Do you know how many guys are waiting to live life freely after that?

[siren]

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[Grant]

I just got back from a dental convention in Utah.

Dan Fischer, who is a practicing dentist and owner of Ultradent Corporation in South Jordan, Utah, is the oldest of 36 children, the son of a man who had 7 wives and who did two and a half years in prison for it in the 1950's. He is an ex-member of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), who states unequivocally that the practices of the last two "Prophets" of the church have been child abuse, and not the polygamy of past generations. In order to have "sufficient" wives, the group has been driving out a majority of young males and forcibly marrying off girls to much older men at ages as young as 12. Marriage in the group is no longer by courtship, but is now by the "appointment of the Prophet". Something on the order of 300 families were recently broken up to provide wives for favored males. Doctor Fisher opposes this and is doing what he can for the girls who want out and the boys who have been forced out. It is not a pretty picture and not something American Muslims will want to be associated with.

Warren Jeffs, the current Prophet of the FLDS, is presently under indictment in Texas and will almost certainly be convicted as an accessory to rape of a minor. He just fired what I think is his third lawyer......

[Enlightened~Sista]

Grant welcome back!

[libaxnigga]

these guys have right, everman shud have more than one ceeb