This blog post from “Progressive Proselytizing” caught our attention: On the Morality of Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm Should polygamy be legal? This question is at the core of the landmark polygamy case slowly working its way up the Canadian justice system. To answer this, we look at the balance between harm and freedom. The [...]
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Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Government, Rights on February 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What harms do polygamy laws prevent?
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following article, written by Kate Heartfield of the ‘Ottawa Citizen’, echoes some of our talking points raised with government officials in both Utah and Arizona concerning the laws against adult consensual polygamy. The polygamy reference case has already made a valuable contribution: It has focused the debate on the question of harm. Apologists for [...]
Polygamy and the Law
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Government, Rights on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since we’re highlighting the Canadian Polygamy Case involving Winston Blackmore and James Oler, I thought I would share an interesting discussion from a Law is Cool Podcast early last year. Law is Cool Podcast: Polygamy and the Law Also, check out one of the significant comments from that podcast…
Polygamy court case shines spotlight on Creston’s divisions
Posted in Canada on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph by: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Polygamy+court+case+shines+spotlight+Creston+divisions/1199308/story.html CRESTON — The practice of polygamy sets neighbour against neighbour, parent against child, politician against politician and even some husbands against wives in this southeastern B.C. town. It’s not that townsfolk here are polygamists. But Creston’s proximity to the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful, where some men unabashedly [...]
This polygamy story has barely started
Posted in Canada on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=9d20913a-67e3-4329-8738-7a1d2a6f16d8&p=2 If nothing else, Attorney General Wally Oppal’s dogged pursuit of the Bountiful religious sect’s leaders has resulted in some of the oddest bail conditions ever imposed in B.C. Winston Blackmore, leader of one faction in the commune, was released yesterday on condition that he stop getting married until the polygamy issue is sorted out. [...]
2 leaders of polygamist group arrested in Canada
Posted in Canada on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8DHElciOy_DHCfRLx9CyvuwnP1gD95IHKMO0 VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Two top leaders of a polygamous community in western Canada have been arrested and charged with practicing polygamy, British Columbia’s attorney general said Wednesday. Attorney General Wally Oppal said Winston Blackmore is charged with marrying 20 women, while James Oler is accused of marrying two women. “This has been [...]
