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Bountiful leaders charged with polygamy

By samantha, on January 8th, 2009

Is there humor in the fact that these polygamists lived in a town called Bountiful?

Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, January 07, 2009

On Wednesday around 7:45 a.m., eight plainclothes RCMP officers in unmarked cars drove up to the homes of polygamous leaders Winston Blackmore and James Oler in southeastern British Columbia.

They arrested Blackmore, 52, and Oler, 44, and charged them with the criminal offence of practising polygamy. It may not be the first time that anyone in Canada has been charged with polygamy. But it is definitely the first time anyone has been charged since the 1800s.

Read full article here..

Double standards, Marriage, Media, Polygamy, Religion, Sex
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  • yondan

    Unfortunately Canadian law seems not to distinguish between polygamy and exploitation of women. The result is that religiouly biased laws about monogamy are used to ‘get’ perpetrators of abuse of women since the ubiquitous ‘they’ can’t get at them by other, more appropriate means.

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    A law is a law. However if they are going to charge someone with Polygamy, then I hope they are going after everyone that practices polygamy. It would be quite disgusting if they were just doing this to make a political statement of trying to get their point across. Thanks for the read!

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