Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <ddfr-FF4216.09322329042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <fv75br$lnv$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
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>> In article <ddfr-066614.13290127042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> >It's worth noting that the same legislative session, three years ago, 
>> >raised the age of consent for marital *** from 14 to 16 and made 
>> >polygamy a felony. It seems pretty clear that the legal changes, along

>> >with another that didn't pass, were designed to target the FLDS, with 
>> >the objective of either destroying them or driving them out of the 
>> >state. 
>> 
>> This isn't the first cult with child brides to establish itself in
>> Texas.  Maybe the state was getting sick of it.
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>I gather the legislator who pushed the changes was from the area where 
>the FLDS located itself, and made no secret of his motivation.

Well, yes, I would say in most cases laws are passed to outlaw something
that is already going on.  Only after someone set up an autodialer machine
to call every number in Ottawa 24/7 did Canada pass a law saying you can't
do that.

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