It’s not unprecedented; for some reason, judges usually give a polygamist lots of time to end his various illegal marriages.  In the case of Lorri L. Freesland, from Kinde, Michigan, she gets six months to choose between her two husbands.  One of whom she married in 2000, though he moved to Alaska without a divorce in 2006.  The second of her husbands she married in 2007.  Now, because of her polygamy, she’s getting 15 days in jail, a year of probation, and six months to get a divorce.

I have to be honest, I don’t understand the objections to polygamy.  I asked someone today if it was possible to be for gay marriage, but against polygamy.  I mean, they’re both nontraditional definitions of marriage:  one of them has hundreds of years of legality and acceptance throughout the world, and the other is gay marriage.  If one is okay; shouldn’t the other one be okay, too? Neither one of them bothers me personally; what you do is your business, I just think it’s an interesting debate.

The person I voiced this question to brought up the fact that most of the polygamy we hear about in America involves 14-year-olds on desert compounds and whatnot, but 14-year-olds get married in some states legally and a lot of that behavior goes on precisely because polygamy is illegal; if you force it into the shadows, then you can’t legislate it and ensure safety for all involved.  I’m not sure how the contract would work out, but I’m sure you could have marriage LLCs or first-wife privilege or something worked into the polygamist marriage certificate.

Tags: Lorri L. Freesland, polygamy, woman given six months to end polygamist lifestyle, Huron County, Michigan, Circuit Judge M. Richard Knoblock, crime and punishment, unusual punishments

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