Jan 19, 2010
(January 12, 2010) Proposition 8, the referendum passed in November 2008 that defines marriage between one man and one woman, has survived numerous state-level challenges in the court system. Ted Olsen and David Boies are leading a controversial federal-level challenge. Dr J explains some of their tactics and takes them to task on their distortion of Prop 8 supporters' position.
For once I\'m a little disappointed. Not with the overarching content of the podcast, but with one misapplication that happened in passing. There is no such thing as a \"Mormon sect\" that currently practices, or currently argues for legal rights to practice, polygamy. The news media commonly mistake the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the FLDS Church) to be a sect of the LDS, or Mormon, church. The FLDS are a breakoff church, completely unaffiliated with the LDS church. And, any member of the LDS church that practices polygamy, or that sympathizes with groups currently practicing polygamy illegally, is excommunicated.
For a better understanding of polygamy and the Mormons, I would direct everyone to this statement by the LDS Church at their newsroom:
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/background-information/polygamy-latter-day-saints-and-the-practice-of-plural-marriage
I don\'t remember talking about Mormon polygamy. refresh my memory...