Re: Utah Polygamist Invokes Ruling on Gay Sex.

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>Utah Polygamist Invokes Ruling on Gay Sex
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>By MARK THIESSEN
>Associated Press Writer
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>December 2, 2003, 2:57 AM EST
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>SALT LAKE CITY -- A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives 
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".........man with five wives........."


A man with fives wives who commits adultery,  will be beaten-up by the five wives.

This is a worse fate,  than the man with one wife,  who commits adultery.
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>argued Monday that his bigamy convictions should be thrown out following a
>Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex. 
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>The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling
>that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no
>business of government. 
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>It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, 
>to the Utah Supreme Court. 
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[a]
What a man and his hareem do in the privacy of their homes,  
would not normally be any business of government.


[b]
The law only recognizes the first wife.
The other ninety-nine women of the hareem are not counted as wives by the courts.


[c]
The law does not allow anyone to enter a marriage ceremony until the previous 
marriage ceremony has been cancelled.


[d]
A heterosexual marriage ceremony is two people.
A same-sex marriage ceremony is two people.
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>"It doesn't bother anyone, (and with) no compelling state interest in
>what you do in your own home with consenting adults, you should be
>allowed to do so," Bucher said. 
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>The state said the court should reject the appeal because Green failed
>to raise the issue during his trial more than two years ago or
>anywhere else along the judicial path since then. 
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>Green, who is not affiliated with any church, was convicted of four
>counts of bigamy and one count of criminal nonsupport of his 30
>children in August 2001. 
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>Besides his five-year sentence, he faces up to life in prison after
>being convicted of child rape for having sex with one of his five
>wives when she was 13. 
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>"He preys on young girls," assistant Utah Attorney General Laura
>Dupaix said. "This case is about a man who marries young girls and
>calls it religion." 
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>Polygamy was renounced by the 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. 
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