Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <ddfr-964C62.12083123042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <fuo13u$ki$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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>> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > Paul Ciszek <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >>> Married, legally with parent's permission, in New Hamp****re at 13
>> >>> or in Canada, last year, at 14.
>> > 
>> >> But not in Texas.
>> > 
>> > Doesn't Texas honor other state's marriages?
>> 
>> Honoring the marriage in a legal sense wouldn't necessarily prevent
them
>> from charging someone with statutory rape, depending on the way the
laws
>> are written. Unless the law specifically has an exception for legally
>> married couples then the age restrictions would apply.
>
>Do you know of any actual cases, in Texas or elsewhere, of someone being 
>convicted of statutory rape for *** with his wife, where they had been 
>legally married in another state? It seems like a very odd situation.

I vaguely recall a problem that arose in Delaware involving an immigrant
community with 13 year old brides.  But I don't suppose states are 
required to recognize marriages performed in other *countries*.
So, rather than "It is a crime for you to **** your wife", it was more
like "She's not your wife, and it is illegal for you to **** her in
any case."

Here's an interesting paradox:  If President McCain puts a couple more
conservative justices on the SCotUS, states could resume enforcing anti-
sodomy laws.  I suspect that a Massachusetts marriage license will not
be an adequate defense.

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