{"id":1954,"date":"2011-04-20T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2011-04-20T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:47:40","slug":"two-ways-of-looking-at-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Two ways of looking at marriage&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1955\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bountiful-commune-in-the-Kootenays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bountiful-commune-in-the-Kootenays.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Bountiful commune in the Kootenays<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nIn Canada a Vancouver court has been asked to rule on a principles that could change the country&#8217;s future. The issue at stake is whether polygamy can be legally prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>A fundamentalist sect that broke away from the Mormon church permits men to take several wives at its Bountiful commune in the Kootenays.\u00a0 One of the commune&#8217;s leaders is alleged to have 25 wives.<\/p>\n<p>If the ban on polygamy is upheld, that means religious freedom is only a qualified right. However, if the ban is struck down, values such as gender equality and the rights of children take a back seat. Religious freedom would come first.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard testimony that one of the Bountiful leaders took his 15-year-old daughter to the United States to be married, and brought back with him a bride of the same age.<\/p>\n<p>And they note that in similar fundamentalist communes in the U.S., male children are driven away to prevent competition for wives. One witness testified that a boy of 15 and his brother were given $100 and a black bag with clothes, and told to leave. The arithmetic of polygamy is bound to cause problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/life\/challenge+polygamy\/4630452\/story.html\">Full story Times Colonist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in the UK&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>With effect from 6 April 2011 separating couples are required to attend a mediation awareness session before taking their case to court unless there are allegations of domestic violence or child protection issues. Applicants for public funding are already required to do this.<\/p>\n<p>The Pre-application protocol for mediation information and assessment (Family Procedure Rules 2010) is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/about\/docs\/pd-introducing-pre-action-protocol-feb-2011.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bountiful commune in the Kootenays In Canada a Vancouver court has been asked to rule on a principles that could change the country&#8217;s future. The issue at stake is whether polygamy can be legally prohibited. A fundamentalist sect that broke away from the Mormon church permits men to take several wives at its Bountiful commune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}