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United States.: 93 [24] The Court said that while holding a religious belief was protected under the First Amendment right of freedom of religion, practicing a religious belief that broke the law was not. [25] Reynolds vs. United States was the Supreme Court's first case in which a party used the right of freedom of religion as a defense. The ...
Polygamy is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim-majority countries. Some countries that permit polygamy have restrictions, such as requiring the first wife to give her consent. In countries that ban polygamy, the offence is commonly called bigamy, though
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the decision on April 11, 2016 [62] On January 23, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear arguments from the husband and four wives who star in the television show Sister Wives, letting stand a lower court ruling that kept polygamy a crime in Utah. [63]
Polygamy in the United States (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Polygamy by country" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
By RYAN GORMAN Same-sex couples in multiple states across America are getting married after Monday morning's landmark Supreme Court decision to not hear same-sex marriage cases. The nation's ...
"Banning polygamy makes little sense because data shows very few Muslim men have more than one wife in India," said board official S.Q.R. Ilyas, adding that the government has no right to question ...
Modern Polygamy in the United States: Historical, Cultural, and Legal Issues. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199746378. OCLC 466084007. Richards, Jacob (February 2010), "Autonomy, Imperfect Consent, and Polygamist Sex Rights Claims" (PDF), California Law Review, 98 (1): 197– 243 [permanent dead link ] Van Wagoner, Richard S ...
Slovenia became the latest country to approve same-sex marriage on October 4, 2022, after the court struck down the country's ban in July.