UTAH POLYGAMIST INVOKES LAWRENCE

[From the Dept. of You Knew This Would Happen]

A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives argued Monday that his bigamy convictions should be thrown out following a Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex.

The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no business of government.

It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, to the Utah Supreme Court. ...

Polygamy has an estimated 30,000 practitioners in the West.

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