Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <ddfr-B75D81.09423024042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>My initial post on this mentioned _Stranger in a Strange Land_. It later 
>occurred to me that Manny, in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, gets 
>arrested for polygamy as a result of describing his line marriage. I 
>believe the youngest wife at that point is sixteen--I don't remember if 
>it ever says if she was younger than that when she was married in--so if 
>it had happened in Texas last year it would have been illegal.

As I remember it, Manny gets arrested after he shows a picture of his
family--and it can be seen that some of them are black.

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