December 2, 2010 by El Guapo
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 the current law are now having to try to show that polygamy, in and of itself, always and necessarily hurts people. I don’t believe they’re succeeding, but I do see this as a promising first step toward creating a rational and effective legal strategy for dealing with abuse in polygamous communities.
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November 30, 2010 by El Guapo
I found this blog with its attendant argument for legalizing polygamy. It is written from the perspective of a black male born in Nigeria and familiar with African tradition and also Muslim beliefs. Apparently he has researched Mormonism as well and has some interesting insights and arguments for legalization.
I find it interesting that opinions on conjugal socialization are fast evolving toward a more liberal stance. Freedom of choice regarding consenting adult relationships is the new trend in our modern world.
Here is the link to the blog.
~Submitted by HJD
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November 17, 2010 by El Guapo
In light of our work with the Safety Net organization and our interaction with various social workers and law enforcement (so called) personnel, I thought the attached entry from the Escape to Polygamy Blog by J. R. North would have some interest in a satirical vein.
The URL link (true story) referenced in the piece, is the basis for the satire on the abuse suffered from a “monogamous” society. When the mind set of people begins to finally realize that a lifestyle choice doesn’t commit abuse, or a crime and that people do, we may begin to see more tolerance for lifestyle choice. After all, it takes a live person to pull the trigger of a gun, so should we punish guns or the people who misuse them?
Click here for the story.
~Submitted by HJD
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November 12, 2010 by El Guapo
Another article on the recent decision by a federal judge in Canada to declare three federal statutes criminalizing prostitution to be unconstitutional has a very interesting basis in Canadian legal theory, “the right not to be harmed.” Apparently the theory goes something like this:
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November 11, 2010 by El Guapo
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…
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November 10, 2010 by El Guapo
I thought it might be of interest to link the esteemed Professor Jonathan Turley’s Affidavit filing in the Canadian Reference Case. To call it simply a brilliant display of understanding Constitutional Law, would be an understatement indeed. In our view, Turley obliterates Marci Hamilton’s arguments, which are simply a replay of her worn out dissertations on Findlaw and other legal blogs.
We are most fortunate to have the best of the best regarding Constitutional Law working for our civil rights…
Here is the affidavit: Turley Affidavit
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November 9, 2010 by El Guapo
Our community recently had the wonderful and joyful pleasure of having Maya Stein visit and share her amazing poetic talent with us. She shared the experience on her blog and it seemed appropriate to repost here as well:
I have so much to say about the past two days, and yet I can’t possibly contain it all here, in the span of a blog post. It feels like the world has shifted, and it’s beyond election results and the World Series and October segueing into November. It’s something about world view and peace-making and surrender. It’s about being aligned with the desert and safeguarded by mountains. It’s about self-care and self-love. And it’s about the grandeur of kindness.
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November 3, 2010 by El Guapo
If you have three men and three women living together in a commune somewhere out west. It is considered consenting adult free love and no one (especially in California) cares.
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October 28, 2010 by El Guapo
Here we are in the 21st Century. Technology is moving faster than we can keep up with, opening whole new arenas to us. The options of what we watch, listen to, read and connect with are so much more expansive than at any other part of our lives, informing us of any little thing we could hope to know.
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October 28, 2010 by El Guapo
These comments from J. Wight, and others from the www.jonathanturley.org blog were well articulated and we feel it has merit to be shared here on our blog:
J. Wight
1, October 18, 2010 at 4:40 am
I’m a mainstream Mormon and have alway been taught to shun even the appearance of condoning the polygamous lifestyle at all costs. I grew up in Oregon but now I live in the same Utah valley as the participants in this show. I’m an involuntarily-divorced father and over the past years I have come to reconsider the notion of polygamy, though I would never leave my church and will never do anything other than sympathize with many polygamous families. I now know polygamous families personally that are decent, down-to-earth, and loving families. The astounding fact everyone seems to miss is the caring, nurturing, and loving parenting that takes place with the children. This lifestyle is probably not for everyone, but if you think that this lifestyle is somehow deficient for the children involved, compared with neighbors and most families,who put their children in daycare for 10 hours a day, then you are simply deluded. No sober or sane perspective of these people, witnessing it first-hand, can come to this conclusion. The caveat here, of course, is that I’m talking about the non-criminal and/or non-abusive polygamous lifestyle. Everyone knows about the crazy and abusive polygamists, who operate and socio-pathologically thrive on the margins of a disenfranchised or outlawed culture–like so many other sociopaths who operate on so many different fringes of the marginalized populations of our societies. Because they can get away with so much on the un-monitored margins, sociopathic personalities will always be associated with such subcultures. However, you must look beyond the headlines and surface portrayals to understand a cultural choice such as this, just as you would for any alternative lifestyle.
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