What are the prospects for getting polygamy legalized?
What we are aiming for, at least as a first step, is to get it decriminalized, which means just to remove the criminal penalty from it. Right now, if a fellow has a job and his boss finds out he’s got two or three wives, he can fire him, because he’s guilty of a felony. Maybe he’s doing a very good job, and the only thing the employer can find wrong is that he’s living polygamy. He can fire him for that. I feel like that’s really unfair. Probably the first step is to get it reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. It is a felony in Utah. Do you think there is openness in our culture to your lifestyle, more so than in the past? I think so. People are more accepting of alternative lifestyles between consenting adults. The Lawrence v Texas case showed that–anything in your bedroom should be allowed. I feel like society, generally speaking, is a little bit more ready to accept and learn more about the polygamous lifestyle. Not that they’re going to run and join and have a bunch more wives,
