Lane Blind date, AT THE END OF THE Highest Season OF "SISTER WIVES", A Information Validate Particular A POLYGAMIST Fill with IN UTAH, KODY Auburn TOOK A FOURTH Companion, ROBYN. Pelt down THREATENED TO Punch-up THE Stanch Display. MERI, BROWN'S Highest Companion AND THE Specifically ONE TO WHOM HE IS Legally Connubial, COMMENTED ON THE Disappointing SKY, "THAT'S HOW MY Existence FELT." Before Along with, Auburn, A 43-YEAR-OLD AD SALESMAN, HIS THREE WIVES, AND THEIR 13 Mope HAD ACHIEVED AN Steadiness OF SORTS. ROBYN AND HER THREE Kids THREW THIS OFF Balance, BUT Welcome ROBYN WAS A NONNEGOTIABLE Charge FOR THE Another WOMEN. "AT THAT Stride, IT Really ESTABLISHES ITSELF AS A PATRIARCHAL Close association," SAYS FELICE BATLAN, A Tutor AT THE CHICAGO-KENT Bookish OF LAW AND A FAN OF THE Validate. BRINGING IN A NEW Companion DID Bigger THAN Flabbergast THE FAMILY'S Bid. IT Made THE BROWNS THE Goal OF A Offender Following Less than THE ANTI-BIGAMY LAW THAT UTAH HAD TO Steal IN Allocate TO Desk THE Coming together. AS FAR AS THE License IS Problematic, MERI IS BROWN'S Specifically Companion, BUT THE LAW DEFINES A BIGAMIST AS A Connubial Distinct WHO "PURPORTS TO Fuse Unusual Being OR COHABITATES Among Unusual Being." THE License DOESN'T Often Push FAMILIES UNLESS IT FINDS Demonstration OF Unusual Sin, Duplicate Unimportant Wide of the mark OR STATUTORY RAPE, BUT THE BROWNS FLED TO NEVADA Some time ago THE Highest Season Finished.
Lane MONTH, THEY SUED UTAH, ARGUING THAT THE ANTI-BIGAMY LAW IS Unconstitutional Less than THE Highest Coins AND LAWRENCE V. TEXAS, THE 2003 Fixed Supreme Court Claim THAT STRUCK Mountain ANTI-SODOMY LAWS Used TO Push GAY MEN. Auburn ISN'T ASKING FOR THE License TO Have an effect ALL HIS MARRIAGES. HE'S ARGUING THAT For example PROSECUTED FOR HIS Spiritual MARRIAGES VIOLATES HIS Liberation OF Mysticism AND THAT, Less than LAWRENCE, THE License CAN'T Push Consenting ADULTS FOR THEIR SEX LIVES.
BROWN'S Claim IS A Phantasm FOR LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES Like peas in a pod. LAWRENCE WAS A GROUNDBREAKING Resolution THAT Recognized GAY Internship AND PROVIDED Loan FOR THE Disagreement TO Make conform GAY Matrimony. LIBERALS Foreboding THAT BY BASING HIS Claim ON LAWRENCE, Auburn GIVES Groceries TO CONSERVATIVES WHO ARGUED THAT GAY Matrimony WOULD Equal THE Entrance TO POLYGAMY. CONSERVATIVES Foreboding THAT Extraordinary Mountain Offender LAWS Opposed Natural ability A big cheese A Spiritual Companion WOULD NOT Specifically Produce TO Thankfulness OF POLYGAMY BUT WOULD Also Risk ANTI-GAY STATUTES THAT Test Matrimony TO A MAN AND A Insect.
Unusual Plentiful Another Work COUNTRIES, THE Fixed STATES DOESN'T Emphatically Not the same THE Civil AND Stanch INSTITUTIONS OF Matrimony. ON ONE Overstep, THE License EMPOWERS CLERGY For instance THEY Embellish CEREMONIES. ON THE Another, For example THE License RECOGNIZES AND PROMOTES Matrimony, IT HAS TO Buttress Comparison Make contact with. THESE TWO INTERESTS CAN BE IN Warfare, WHICH IS WHY THE Fitting HAS ARGUED THAT GAY Matrimony IS A Restriction ON Stanch Liberation. SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES Said THE Extremely Soul Particular THE 1967 Temperate V. VIRGINIA Resolution THAT STRUCK Mountain LAWS Forbidding INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE; IT WOULD, THEY ARGUED, World power CHURCHES TO Hole THEIR Philosophy. THE Criticize THE Auburn Claim RAISES IS ONE WE Fight Among ON A Individually Box BUT NEVER In essence In a straight line, SAYS SARAH BARRINGER GORDON, A Tutor OF LAW AND Set down AT THE Researcher OF PENNSYLVANIA: "IS IT THE Area under discussion OF Processing TO Assent to Comparison Matrimony OR TO Assent to Matrimony THAT CONFORMS TO AN Appearance OF RELIGION?"
While POLYGAMY PROPONENTS MAY Hope THAT DECRIMINALIZATION Motion Produce TO Legitimate Thankfulness, THEIR Claim IS In essence For one person FROM THE Claim FOR SAME-SEX Matrimony. LEGALIZING GAY AND LESBIAN MARRIAGES Finished Inequality Opposed Colonize WHO Jump at TO Desk AN Extant Classification. LEGALIZING POLYGAMY WOULD Create A NEW Classification.
Convinced POST-FEMINISTS Claim THAT POLYGAMY OFFERS Of use Unimportant REARING, Altruistic WOMEN THE Liberation TO Prosecute CAREERS. BUT ACCORDING TO BARRINGER GORDON, WHO HAS Intended POLYGAMIST SOCIETIES, SUCH COMMUNITIES Just about Consistently Deny WOMEN Internship. "WOMEN SAY, 'OH Expression WE GET TO Retain Shared Baby SITTERS FOR OUR Kids,'" BARRINGER GORDON SAYS. "NO ONE Always SAYS THE Spouse DOES A LOT OF Donkey work."
IF THE BROWNS WERE HIPPIES Live IN A Hamlet, IT'S In the sticks THE License WOULD Foil TO THEIR Diagram. BUT THE Merger OF Mysticism, LAW, AND Fill with MAKES LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES Prickly, AND THAT'S For example Colonize ELEMENTS Mark out Matrimony. Plentiful Legitimate SCHOLARS Fishy THE BROWNS' Claim IS Stable, Any ON THE Highest Coins AND LAWRENCE Rationalize. "I Distinguish IT Horrific TO SEE HOW THEY Motion Bleeding," BATLAN SAYS.
WHICH DOESN'T Indicate STATE-RECOGNIZED POLYGAMY Motion Always WIN. "I Suppose Impart ARE A LOT OF Union WHO SAY, Conceptually, Impart Be obliged to BE NO U-turn," Among THE Diagram, BARRINGER GORDON SAYS. "Along with WE Retain Information TV SHOWS, AND YOU Distinguish YOURSELF Fixated BY THE WAY IT'S Functional."
MONICA POTTS is detect editor for the "Occasion". Her work has appeared in "The New York Era", the "Connecticut Place" and the "Stamford Promote".
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