Polygamy laws aimed at men, court told

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Source: CBC News

Canada's prohibition against polygamy does not criminalize women who have multiple husbands, a lawyer for the British Columbia government said Tuesday.

Craig Jones told court the law was intended to only prohibit men from marrying multiple women.

Jones offered his admittedly "controversial" interpretation — one that stands at odds with even the federal government — at a constitutional reference case in Vancouver examining whether Canada's anti-polygamy laws violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The hearings were spurred by the controversy over the fundamentalist breakaway Mormon sect of Bountiful, where two leaders were charged with polygamy last year only to see those charges dropped on technical legal grounds.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/23/bc-polygamy-hearing.html

[madinmaryland]

1. When a woman can get multiple men pregnant at the same time, then ...

Yeap.

[Rage for Order]

2. It's not necessarily about pregnancy

Polygamy is only justified when it's a man with multiple wives. After all, you see a yard full of hens, but only one rooster; you see a field of cows and only one bull; you see a pride of lionesses, but only one lion.

There you go; argument settled.

[boppers]

3. How many male bees to a queen?

Jus' sayin'...