Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <fur2p7$3qq$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:

> 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.

He gets arrested after talking publicly about his family. At a later 
point, after Prof has filled him in on the fact that it was a setup, 
there's a comment to the effect that the mixed race of the family was 
the final straw from the standpoint of the judge.

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