Plan B?
Now that the Texas FLDS kids have been returned to their families, polygamists and their foes have returned to exchanging malarky.Yeah, right. The FLDS geezers say they won't marry underage girls anymore. FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop says the decision has nothing to do with the raid, but had been in effect for 18 months:
Not only do we mean it, we've lived it.A Dan Jones poll shows that not even half of Utahns, a group renown for their gullibility, buy that, Willie.
Yeah, right. British Columbia's Attorney General Wally Oppal says he's going to prosecute members of its FLDS splinter polygamous group at Bountiful. Canadians think he's blowing smoke :
His message to the men of Bountiful? "I don't want them to think that we think the law gives them the right to do what they're doing." Unfortunately for Oppal, that's exactly what we do think, as all the previous legal views make clear.Yeah, right. Arizona law enforcement, faced with yet another splinter polygamist group, are reexamining their law against polygamy to decide if prosecution is possible:
Polygamy law in Arizona is fuzzy. Arizona's Constitution bans polygamy but lists no punishment. Arizona's criminal code makes bigamy a crime, but unlike in Utah and Texas, it does not outlaw plural cohabitation. Because polygamists here are wedded spiritually, rather than with marriage licenses, they are not technically breaking the law.
Yeah, right. Back in Texas, a frustrated Gov. Rick Perry shook his fist at the FLDS and vowed a big vow:
Fortunate
ly we have Rush to explain all. Limbaugh, apparently feeling no pain, says polygamy is not right because, well, it's against the law:
“If you are going to conduct yourself that way, we are going to prosecute you. If you don't want to be prosecuted for those activities, then maybe Texas is not the place you need to consider calling home.Santa Ana sent a similar message to a bunch of immigrants at the Alamo — see how well that worked.
Fortunate
ly we have Rush to explain all. Limbaugh, apparently feeling no pain, says polygamy is not right because, well, it's against the law:Well, basically it's the law. I mean, marriage in this country is one man, one woman; one man, one man; two women, two women; one man, one dog; one man, one gerbil. But when you start adding a third party to it, then you have violated the law.
You can't legally marry two people in the United States. I don't know why not. It's just because you can't, that's what the law says. Look, the law says I can't have my damn turtle lights on, why? Because the law says. Is the law stupid? Yes.
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