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Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-09-2018, 03:46 PM
B.C. Supreme Court rules that Canadians do not have a Constitutional right to have more than one spouse at a time
I'm surprised that this made it as far up the court system as it did. (And there's still one more court to appeal to: the Supreme Court of Canada.)
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-09-2018, 06:06 PM
(03-09-2018, 03:46 PM)robkelk Wrote: B.C. Supreme Court rules that Canadians do not have a Constitutional right to have more than one spouse at a time
I'm surprised that this made it as far up the court system as it did. (And there's still one more court to appeal to: the Supreme Court of Canada.)
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-10-2018, 11:01 AM
This has been dragging out for years...
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-10-2018, 01:32 PM
Its not legal in the US either, except I think in Utah and then you have to be a member of the Mormon Church
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-10-2018, 04:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2018, 08:07 PM by robkelk.)
Well, I wasn't going to mention the defendants's religion ... but, yeah, fundamentalist Mormons.
EDIT: Which I am lead to believe have some schismatic differences with other Mormons.
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-10-2018, 05:06 PM
It's illegal in Utah (and not practiced by mainstream Mormons). Mormon schismetics get around this by legal dodges, such as being legally divorced but still living together.
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-11-2018, 01:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2018, 01:51 AM by Black Aeronaut.)
Actually, there is a way to get around it here in the USA.
Don't be legally married to more than one person.
So long as you don't hold multiple marriage contracts and you do not attempt to game the system for the purposes of tax evasion and welfare benefits, then there's not a damn thing that American law can touch you with. That sort of business is strictly between the two that are married (if legally at all).
Granted, there's a certain degree of social stigma, but when a family is sufficiently large enough are you really gonna want to be on their bad side? Not to mention that old saw: what side of history do you want to be caught on in the end?
It's pretty much why there's been a sudden uprising in polyamory here in the USA, much to the chagrin of the Bible Belt.
I can almost see a scene playing out between a wrathful sheriff, a cool-headed lawyer, and the judge caught between them...
(Edit for accidental double-post.)
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RE: Polygamy still illegal in Canada
03-11-2018, 08:16 AM
Huh, not even those caveats in the US, learn something new every day.
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