{"id":41593,"date":"2013-12-16T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sl_tribune_laws_against_mormon_polygamists_lead_to_win_for_plural_marriage\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:49:57","slug":"sl_tribune_laws_against_mormon_polygamists_lead_to_win_for_plural_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41593","title":{"rendered":"(SL Tribune) Laws against Mormon polygamists lead to win for plural marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The state has got to feel a little foolish enforcing these old statutes that are particular to Utah history,&#8221; says Kathleen Flake, chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. &#8220;We no longer criminalize adultery or fornication. Any college dormitory could run afoul of these laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Americans today recognize &#8220;a zone of privacy around sexual activity,&#8221; says Flake, who is working on a book about Mormon polygamy. &#8220;Why isn\u2019t that granted to people who believe themselves to be married to multiple partners as opposed to those who simply have multiple partners?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now it is, at least to one judge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/57264020-78\/church-polygamy-mormon-says.html.csp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The state has got to feel a little foolish enforcing these old statutes that are particular to Utah history,&#8221; says Kathleen Flake, chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. &#8220;We no longer criminalize adultery or fornication. Any college<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41593\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,175,168,133,114,98,428,155,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}