Saskatchewan says no to polygamy
You know, I really like the new HBO show Big Love, but Saskatchewan is absolutely right to stand firm against a polygamist sect, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, that may be trying to set up a new community in the province.
For those on the right who think otherwise, polygamy is not the same as same-sex marriage and should not be tolerated. The leader of this sect, which is based on the Utah-Arizona border, is under investigation and is being sought by Utah officials. The sect itself "has been under close scrutiny amid allegations of welfare fraud, sexual abuse and forced marriages". Polygamy is against the law, but so, too, are child abuse and sexual exploitation.
We should have none of it in Canada. Which means that we should crack down on polygamy in Bountiful, B.C., and prevent this sect from settling in Saskatchewan. We are a tolerant society, but tolerance can only go so far.
For those on the right who think otherwise, polygamy is not the same as same-sex marriage and should not be tolerated. The leader of this sect, which is based on the Utah-Arizona border, is under investigation and is being sought by Utah officials. The sect itself "has been under close scrutiny amid allegations of welfare fraud, sexual abuse and forced marriages". Polygamy is against the law, but so, too, are child abuse and sexual exploitation.
We should have none of it in Canada. Which means that we should crack down on polygamy in Bountiful, B.C., and prevent this sect from settling in Saskatchewan. We are a tolerant society, but tolerance can only go so far.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
10:39 PM
2 Comments:
Saskatchewan legalized polygamy in 2009. A judge and the Saskatchewqan attorney general office let a woman claim to have two spouses at the same time. its over.. Polygamy is legal in saskatchewan, and likely all canda therefore. The judge said section 51 of the saskatchewazn family property act allows multiple conjugal unions with no possibility of polygamy charges whether married, common law or whatever.
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Anonymous, at 6:42 PM
Dude,
Saskatchewan Canada legalized Polygamy way earlier than 2009. I checked legal case law and in 1998 a Saskatchewan judge said that an existing marriage did not disqualify a legal common law marriage at the same time. Check it out by looking at Canlii.org then click /Saskatchewan then enter Winik
I checked and Common law spouse is same as civil spouse under Canada family law. Ipsofacto, Polygamy is legal in Canada.
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Anonymous, at 2:27 PM
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