Laws against polygamy flawed, rules federal judge
A judge has struck down parts of Utah’s laws criminalizing polygamy as unconstitutional in a case involving the Brown family, featured on the television reality series Sister Wives.
U.S. District Court judge Clark Waddoups’s ruling attacks sections of Utah’s law making cohabitation illegal, writing in his decision that the phrase “or cohabits with another person” is a violation of both the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Waddoups said that while there is no “fundamental right” to practice polygamy, the issue really comes down to “religious cohabitation.”
