http://www.charlotte.com/weird/story/406833.html
why? just why ?![]()
http://www.charlotte.com/weird/story/406833.html
why? just why ?![]()





Well I wanted three husbands. I am totally want them each for one thing! Yep, but that is just a fantasy.
I have the feeling maybe she did not understand the concept of marriage. She was probuarly confuse, with the differance between dating and marriage
^^^ At least that would have been my story. What money, I never recieve any checks.
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it states right in the story she did it for money she charged it guy money to get thier amer, status and continued to take money from them after she should have legelly sept from each one after wards if she did she would likely been ok legelly any way.Me never been married to two guys but have had three or four sugar daddies at one time and believe me that is a lot of work marriage no way
small and cute
Good thing she got caught.





I only want one husband, that's enough for me, thanks. Now sugar daddies.. ten would work. But why husbands?!





Why is having more than one spouse illegal?? I've always wondered? Is it a religious thing?





I think so, also I think it might have to do with taxes on some level.
But I just don't get why you'd marry so many people. I understand having an open relationship and having mulitple lovers, but multiple marriages seems so compliated. Especially in a country where over half of the people who have ONE husband/wife can't handle it..![]()
Started out as a religious thing, now it's a little more complicated. Has to do with who gets what in case of death or divorce, insurance, who gets to sign the papers taking someone off life support, that kind of stuff.





[edit] Christianity, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS (Mormon) and the Mormon Fundamentalists
Main articles: Plural marriage and Mormon fundamentalism
See also: List of Latter Day Saint practitioners of plural marriage
The history of Mormon polygamy begins with claims that Mormonism founder Joseph Smith received a revelation from God on July 17, 1831 that some Mormon men would be allowed to practice "plural marriage". The July 12, 1843 recording of a Smith revelation on plural marriage is now canonized as scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants by the LDS Church.[27] For years the practice of plural marriage by Mormons in the United States was not publicly known. The 1835 edition of the 101st Section of the Doctrine and Covenants, written before the doctrine of plural marriage was practiced, publicly condemned polygamy. This scripture was used to quash Mormon polygamy rumors by John Taylor during 1850 in Liverpool, England.[28] Polygamy was illegal in the state of Illinois[29] during the 1839-44 Nauvoo era when several top Mormon leaders including Smith, Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball took plural wives. Mormon elders who publicly taught that all men were commanded to enter plural marriage were subject to discipline; for example, the February 1, 1844 excommunication of Hyram Brown.[30] In May 1844 Smith declared, "What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one."[31] On June 7, 1844 the Nauvoo Expositor criticized Smith for plural marriage. The Nauvoo city council declared the Nauvoo Expositor press a nuisance and ordered Smith, as Nauvoo's mayor, to order the city marshall to destroy the paper and its press. This controversial decision led to Smith going to Carthage Jail where he was killed by a mob on June 27, 1844. The main body of Mormons soon followed Brigham Young to Utah where the practice of plural marriage continued.
On August 29, 1852 the church began to publicly acknowledge their practice of plural marriage through a sermon on the subject given by Apostle Orson Pratt. Additional sermons by top Mormon leaders on the virtues of polygamy followed.[32] Much controversy ensued and many novelists began to write books and pamphlets condemning polygamy, portraying it as a legalized form of slavery.[citation needed] The key plank of the Republican Party's 1856 platform was "to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery".[33] In 1862 during their first term with full control of both Congress and the White House, the Republicans issued the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act and the Emancipation Proclamation. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act clarified that the practice of polygamy was illegal in all U.S. territories. Latter-day Saints believed that their religiously-based practice of plural marriage was protected by the Constitution[34]. However the 1879 unanimous Supreme Court Reynolds v. United States decision declared that polygamy was not protected by the Constitution, based on the longstanding legal principle that "laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices."[35]
Increasingly harsh anti-polygamy legislation penalized church members, disincorporated the church, and permitted the seizure of church property. Members of the church were subsequently sent to Canada and Mexico to set up communities free from prosecution and in order to keep their marriages intact; e.g., Charles Ora Card founded Cardston, Alberta at the direction of John Taylor. The church's fourth president, Wilford Woodruff, issued a public declaration (commonly called the Manifesto) announcing the official discontinuance of the practice in 1890. Woodruff indicated in his diary that his action was taken "for the temporal salvation of the Church" which had been shown to him as being in danger through a vision from the Lord.[36] Much of the opposition against the church ceased because of the Manifesto. Statehood for Utah was granted in 1896 as opposition because of the controversy over Mormon polygamy waned.
National attention in the United States again focused on potential polygamy among the church in the early 20th century during the House of Representatives hearings on Representative-elect B. H. Roberts and Senate hearings on Senator-elect Reed Smoot (the Smoot Hearings). Sixth church president Joseph F. Smith issued the church's Second Manifesto against polygamy in 1904 which clarified that all members of the LDS Church were officially prohibited from performing or entering into polygamous marriages, no matter what the legal status of such unions was in their respective countries of residence.[citation needed] In 1909 a committee of apostles met to investigate post-Manifesto polygamy, and by 1910 the church had a new policy. Those involved in plural marriages after 1904 were excommunicated; and those married between 1890 and 1904 were not to have church callings where other members would have to sustain them.[citation needed] Although the LDS Church officially prohibited new plural marriages after 1904, many plural husbands and wives continued to cohabit until their deaths in the 1940s and 1950s.[37] Seventh church president Heber J. Grant who died in 1945 was the last LDS Church president to have practiced plural marriage.
The LDS Church now excommunicates members found to be practicing polygamy.[38] The "Teachings of Brigham Young"[39] and a LDS website on Joseph Smith [40] are some examples on how LDS Church publications now commonly characterize the history of early church leaders on the practice of plural marriage.
Although most Mormons now accept the prohibition on plural marriage, various splinter groups left the mainline LDS Church to continue the open practice of plural marriage. Polygamy among these groups persists today in Utah, neighboring states, and the spin-off colonies, as well as among isolated individuals with no organized church affiliation. Polygamist churches of Mormon origin are often referred to as "Mormon fundamentalist" who often use a disputed September 27, 1886 revelation to John Taylor as the basis for their authority to continue the practice of plural marriage.[41] The Salt Lake Tribune states there are as many as 37,000 fundamentalists, with less than half of them living in polygamous households.[42] Most of the polygamy is believed to be restricted to about a dozen extended groups of polygamous fundamentalists. The LDS Church asserts that it is improper to call any of these splinter polygamous groups "Mormon."[43][44]
More about this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy#Mormonism
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Wow. That was really long! But I think I get the jist of it.





Sorry, but that is just a little bit of the action. When it comes to why it is Illegal. This issue had stir to many people the wrong way. It took a while for people to stop practicing Polgamy. Back than in the 1800's the goverment. This was real serious for the goverment, we had back in this time era to get in the mist of it! Back in that era, the goverment was less likely to interfere in ones home life. So this was a big issues.
If you want the present to be differant from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spindza
It is what it is, not what you want it to become, that's important -- at least for now. Today, remember that things worth having are worth waiting for!
The Stars
Minds are like parachutes: They only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
Dont throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
I read the story in the newspaper. I don't think she was always involved in real relationships with these men. It was purely a business transaction, money in exchange for residency.





nutty!
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