Stop persecuting polygamists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/nov/28/stoppersecutingpolyg...

"For many Americans, plural marriage is a genuine article of faith. It's time we accepted it as such. For most Americans, the persecution of religious minorities is something found in foreign lands like China or Sudan. Indeed, the protection of the right to live and worship within a faith has long been a rallying cry for the American religious right, including its most vocal ally: President Bush. Yet tens of thousands of Americans face criminal punishment, their children seized, and their assets forfeited for the practice of a religious faith that goes back to the very beginning of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. They are America's polygamists, and they meet every common definition of a persecuted religious minority."