It is a felony. It is against the law. Once again it has to be repeated, and sadly to a law enforcement official this time, that polygamy is not protected as a religious freedom in this country any more than animal sacrifice, throwing a virgin into a volcano or ripping out the still beating heart of a sacrificial warrior and consuming it. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Any sexual act involving a minor by an adult is wrong.
And the fact that Smith would dare compare such statutory rape of a minor to an LDS mission is both appalling and despicable. However, here again, this is not an issue of polygamy but of the sexploitation of a minor. True, Mormon-fundamentalists are apparently using polygamy to influence young girls to marry them, and where any such conspiracy to commit exists, they should be duly charged and prosecuted, yet the fact remains that polygamy as an alternate sexual lifestyle between consenting adults should not be prosecuted. Homosexuality is also illegal in Utah. Yet, where engaged in between consenting adults, Utah does not prosecute.