Polygamists To Gather at Utah Legislature on Feb 12, 2009!

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With the goal of letting lawmakers know they are "families, not felons," members of Utah's polygamous communities will gather at the Utah Legislature next week.

Organizers expect at least 60 fundamentalist Mormons to come to a Legislative Awareness Day on Feb. 12. They will meet with Utah officials, attend a lobbying seminar, tour the Capitol and watch the legislative process in action.

No bills target polygamy this year, but "we want to take the mystery and fear away from the process," said Mary Batchelor, executive director of Principle Voices, co-sponsor with the Principle Rights Coalition Committee.

"We are trying to show up, let people know we're there, what we look like and that these are our families," Batchelor said. "We want to make our presence known and show we are constituents in the state and that our voices are important."