I still feel the answer is to persecute the specific harming actions, such as carnal knowledge of a minor, etc, rather than to have a blanket approach against one of their practices that overlaps those actions. In the article, most of the arguments of "this is bad" were being applied to behaviour that is incidentally related to polygamy, but actually sourced from the religious nutbaggery.
It reads like "we can't actually ban you from being Mormons and being creepy, so we'll go after the thing that makes you different".
I'm all for punching brainwashing cults in the exuberance, but I'm also not keen on blanket laws that don't actually address the problems that purport to be put in place to solve. (See our local "people are stabbing and machetteying one another, so we'll make it really hard to have ornamental swords".... Obviously).
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Date: 2011-11-23 09:35 pm (UTC)It reads like "we can't actually ban you from being Mormons and being creepy, so we'll go after the thing that makes you different".
I'm all for punching brainwashing cults in the exuberance, but I'm also not keen on blanket laws that don't actually address the problems that purport to be put in place to solve. (See our local "people are stabbing and machetteying one another, so we'll make it really hard to have ornamental swords".... Obviously).