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I live just up the street from a large Church of Latter Day Saints, as well as north of "The Land of Zion" and the West in general is VERY heavily Mormon. I have had some LDS friends, coworkers, and so on, and even gone to some of their functions so I have some familiarity with the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS). I obviously am not LDS, nor am I a personal fan of it.
However, I really see nothing wrong with polygamy among consenting adults . If having multiple wives is part of their religion, and adults over the age of 18 really want to do that, why the hell not? I am completely against child brides and 12 year old girls being married off to 63 year old men. There are plenty of people out there with "open" marriages and that isn't outlawed. I think about the Constitution and the ideas of religious freedom, and think that the 1890 law against polygamy is unconstitutional, for legal adults. As the article states the only reason polygamy was outlawed by the Mormons was to have statehood granted for Utah, which I find irony in as the Consitution would then apply, yet they gave up their religious freedom for it.
I also find it outrageous that the mother's lawyer believes learning about polygamy from her father could put Kaylynne at risk of "child abuse and sexual abuse and whatever else." I am pretty sure I learned around that age about polygamy and nothing bad has happened to me. She is from an LDS heritage, she will have to learn about it sometime if she doesn't know about it already, it is a part of their history. We can always send her off to Tibet to observe polyandry to counteract it.
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