Pro-polygamy activists want to see bigamy, at least among consenting adults, decriminalized.

“If adults have chosen this lifestyle for themselves and it’s all about creating families and there’s no underage marriages or abuse, I see no reason why it can’t be decriminalized or legalized,” said Anne Wilde, one of the founders Principle Voices, which sponsored Friday’s conference.

But because prosecutors won’t charge bigamy as a crime itself, polygamists can’t get a court challenge on religious freedom grounds. Past appeals of Utah’s polygamy ban and similar laws prohibiting plural marriage have failed in part, because the alleged victims in the cases were minors.

Torgensen said it is not the attorney general’s role to help push a case of polygamy among consenting adults forward.

“Because of that, we’re stuck,” said Brown.

“So you want to be charged, in a way?” she was asked by Fox 13’s Ben Winslow.

“Bring it on,” Brown replied. “Kind of. We need a test case. We need it decriminalized. People need to see that there are families out there that would be a good representation of the plural communities and we just live our lives like everybody else and that’s the only law we break.”

Source/Full Story:  KSTU
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