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To: George Coyne who wrote (548444)	3/4/2004 10:35:56 PM
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Lawsuit to overturn Utah polygamy ban cites Texas sodomy case team4news.com Salt Lake City-AP -- A civil rights attorney is challenging Utah's ban on polygamy, citing a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Texas sodomy law. The lawsuit says Salt Lake County clerks refused a marriage license to a couple because the man was already married to another woman, who had consented to the additional marriage. The lawsuit says the plaintiffs' religious rights were violated, because polygamy is their "deeply held religious tenet." It also says polygamists are as entitled as people who engage in gay sex to what the Supreme Court called "respect for their private lives." Polygamy was part of the early beliefs of the Mormon church, but was abandoned more than a century ago and outlawed as the territory sought statehood. Some fundamentalist Mormons continue to believe in polygamy, and an estimated 30-thousand still practice it. * * *