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To: miraje who wrote (246539)	4/19/2008 10:07:49 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793772

My "ex" showed me a number of "plyg" houses in the Salt Lake metro area where polygamous families were living quite openly.. My streets here are full of couples who consist of grey-haired men with very young Filipino girls they brought back with them. Both know they bargain they have made. You may not like it, but there is nothing the state should do about it.

To: miraje who wrote (246539)	4/19/2008 10:16:28 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793772

I guess I am confused about why polygamy needs to be conflated with very young women. And also why we should stay out of a situation that could involve coerced marriage for minors. But also, why- because it's been done in the past- does this make it somehow acceptable that young women marry old men without choice? (I am carefully avoiding the Anna Nicole Smiths!) There were a lot of reasons back "then" that made this a necessary practice that don't really exist today. Women died frequently in childbirth and at young ages; women had no rights; women were basically chess pieces who were traded for the property they brought with them. Force when it involves a 15-16 year old isn't legally necessary for rape to occur.