Reality is the guy is only married to one woman. The rest are shack jobs. Mistresses. Concubines. Whatever you want to call them, they are not 'legally married' to the guy.
The way they explained the law on the show was that if they investigated and found the sister wives to be cohabiting in the same house they could prosecute him. Now if he somehow made each house have separate addresses? I'm not sure what it would take.
They don't prosecute for polygamy in Utah, remember? It's a PR nightmare. All those children crying as their daddy is hauled off to jail.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
They don't prosecute for polygamy in Utah, remember? It's a PR nightmare. All those children crying as their daddy is hauled off to jail.
PR for who, the state government of UT or the federal government? or PR for the larger sect of the LDS Church?
I wonder what kind of PR results prosecuting sodomy laws would have. What kind of arguments were used against them? Public Policy?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.