Newsarticle - If fags can marry, then so should pedophiles and bigamists

Commentary: The inevitable has started due to the U.S. Supreme Court's
rulings on sodomy. After all, there's no compelling state interest what you
do in your own home.  Bigomy and Pedophilia is just a step away from being
legal.  Good going faggots!!!  I would say that the legal sex laws will be
about age 13 or so in no time at all.....  You see, faggots just don't care
about the consequences of their actions, they only want to have a dick up
the ass.  So long as they have that, who cares about anything else.

Utah asks high court to toss polygamist's appeal

Mark Thiessen
Associated Press
Dec. 1, 2003 04:00 PM

SALT LAKE CITY - Tom Green is hoping a U.S. Supreme Court decision
decriminalizing gay sex will get his four convictions on polygamy thrown
out.

If the Utah State Court won't do that, Green on Monday asked justices to at
least send the case back to a trial court.

The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law. Justices
said in their decision what gay men and women do in the privacy of their
bedrooms is their business and not that of the government.

It's no different for polygamists, argued Green's attorney, John Bucher.

"It doesn't bother anyone, no compelling state interest in what you do in
your own home with consenting adults, you should be allowed to do so,"
Bucher said.


However, the state asked the court to strike the appeal based on Green's
failure to raise the issue at trial or anywhere else along the judicial path
until now.

"It's not close to adequate," assistant Utah Attorney General Laura Dupaix
said.

"Our only argument is we didn't know about it, and didn't think it would be
viable," Bucher said of why he didn't raise the issue at trial more than two
years ago.

Dupaix acknowledged, however, the appropriate place to raise this type of
defense lies with the Rodney Holm case.

Holm, a policeman in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., has 21
children with three wives. He was convicted of bigamy and unlawful sexual
conduct with an underage girl in August and was sentenced to a year in jail.

Holm's appeal contends the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Texas case
throws the constitutionality of Utah's bigamy law into question.

Holm and others in his community belong to the Fundamentalist Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose members actively practice plural
marriage.

Polygamy was renounced by the larger Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in 1890 as part of a deal to grant Utah statehood, and the church now
excommunicates those members who practice or advocate it. Polygamy has an
estimated 30,000 practitioners in the West.

Green, whose own brand of fundamentalist religion is not affiliated with
either church, was convicted of four counts of bigamy and one count of
criminal nonsupport of his 30 children in August 2001. Judge Guy Burningham
sentenced Green to as much as five years at the Utah State Prison.

During his trial, Green denied that he lived with any of his wives
exclusively or that he intended to be husband and wife with them in any
legal sense. At trial, Green argued he was only "spiritually," not legally,
married to five women. But a judge determined Green had a common law
marriage with first wife Linda Kunz, and jurors found him guilty for
cohabitating with the other women.

Bucher argued to the five Supreme Court justices Monday that the state never
successfully proved that Green was legally married to all five women.

He maintained separate residences at their trailer complex in Utah's west
desert. Bucher also maintained Green did not have continual sexual
relationships with these women that would be considered on par with a
married couple, as defined by state law.

Dupaix countered Green called the women his wives in numerous television
interviews.

"We prosecute him because he's a polygamist," she said.

In addition to his five-year sentence, Green also faces up to life in prison
after being convicted of child rape for having sex with one of his wives
when she was 13. Bucher said his appeal of this conviction likely will be
heard by the state's high court early next year.

"He preys on young girls," Dupaix said. "This case is about a man who
marries young girls and calls it religion."

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