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Student Essay on Legal Polygamy in the U.S.

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Legal Polygamy in the U.S.

Summary:   A persuasive essay on how polygomy is still being practiced in the U.S. legally.


Are you a Mormon? Looking for more than one wife? Does child abuse and violating women's rights sound good? Why not move to Hillsdale Utah, where the illegal act of polygamy is frequently practiced, women are raped, abused and trapped in these illegal circumstances, and rarely is any sort legal action taken. Hildale Utah makes up the nations largest community of polygamous families, and the most amazing part is, nobody in America is doing anything about it. These men, who should be prosecuted, are living happy, illegal lives.

The reason this issue is not being looked into is because plural marriage is one of the "eternal principals" of Mormonism. Practitioners believe that men attain exalted status in the afterlife by having multiple wives in the present one. Only wives who sweetly comply will be "lifted up" to.....

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