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Thread #60592   Message #980008
Posted By: GUEST,Q
09-Jul-03 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thank you, Canada (Same-Sex Marriage)
Subject: RE: BS: Thank you, Canada (Same-Sex Marriage)
Someone estimated that there are some 60,000 polygamists in the southwestern states. Old style Mormons, I don't know the proper name. I don't know the proper numbers either, but there are enough of them that they come up in the newspapers from time to time.

Their unions are illegal under current laws in all states and Canadian provinces. The Mormon Church leaders had to renounce polygamy as part of the conditions for admitting Utah to the union, but the practice has persisted among a small group.