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1984 All Over Again:The Collective Rules
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This thread is for past and present cases of Prosecution
of the Crime of Bigamy in the United States.
Until a year ago, I was completely ignorant of the rampant flaunting of
anti-bigamy laws and, worse, the complicity of "law enforcement" in places
like Hildale, Utah/Colorady City, Arizona--the original home of the FLDS.
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I'll start with the case of FLDS member Rodney Holm, to whom FLDS Prophet Rulon Jeffs "gave" 16-year-old Ruth Stubbs as his third "celestial wife."
May 18, 2006
Bigamy Conviction Stands for Former Utah Policeman, Rodney Holm
The Utah Supreme Court upheld the 2003 bigamy conviction of a former Hildale police officer, ruling that a law banning polygamy is not unconstitutional.
Holm was convicted of felony bigamy and two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He had argued that the state's bigamy statute violated his right to practice his religion.
The court said that religious protections of the U.S. and Utah constitutions "do not shield [Rodney] Holm's polygamous practices from state prosecution."
Holm is a member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church (not the Morman Church, which banned polygamy in 1890).
http://fightbigamy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/05/bigamy_convicti.html
of the Crime of Bigamy in the United States.
Until a year ago, I was completely ignorant of the rampant flaunting of
anti-bigamy laws and, worse, the complicity of "law enforcement" in places
like Hildale, Utah/Colorady City, Arizona--the original home of the FLDS.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'll start with the case of FLDS member Rodney Holm, to whom FLDS Prophet Rulon Jeffs "gave" 16-year-old Ruth Stubbs as his third "celestial wife."
May 18, 2006
Bigamy Conviction Stands for Former Utah Policeman, Rodney Holm
The Utah Supreme Court upheld the 2003 bigamy conviction of a former Hildale police officer, ruling that a law banning polygamy is not unconstitutional.
Holm was convicted of felony bigamy and two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He had argued that the state's bigamy statute violated his right to practice his religion.
The court said that religious protections of the U.S. and Utah constitutions "do not shield [Rodney] Holm's polygamous practices from state prosecution."
Holm is a member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church (not the Morman Church, which banned polygamy in 1890).
http://fightbigamy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/05/bigamy_convicti.html