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Subject:	Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:40:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allister McLaren wrote:

I understand they use a slightly different definition in Utah.

Used. They changed it a while back, but they really only enforce it if you make a big stink about it (in other words, you have to make your crime seem that much more important to enforce than someone else’s murder before they’re going to come pounding on your door). There was recently a man who was arrested for the umpteenth time because he’s married to 3-4 wives and keeps parading around as a very vocal polygamy-activist. If he’d just shut up about it, they’d leave him alone.

Sorry, why should he shut up about it? If it’s against the law and the law is worth enforceing, enforce it. If it’s not worth enforcing, get rid of the law.

The law against polygamy is such a law. Not worth enforcing.

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		Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
(...) Not getting arrested seems like a good start. Also, breaking the law as a means of trying to have it repealed tends to turn people against you on the grounds that you're one of "those" criminals instead of "us" law-abiding citizens). Protest (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
(...) Used. They changed it a while back, but they really only enforce it if you make a big stink about it (in other words, you have to make your crime seem that much more important to enforce than someone else's murder before they're going to come (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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