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Civil liberties group supports polygamy in landmark court case
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March 17, 2011 | ARPA Canada
Globe and Mail, March 17 2011: Canada’s ban on polygamy invites the state into the bedrooms of consenting adults, says a B.C. civil rights group that is siding with a controversial religious sect in a landmark court case on the federal law barring multiple marriage. The BC Civil Liberties Association has filed a final argument in B.C. Supreme Court against the polygamy law, saying it is a Victorian-era statute that should be “relegated to the scrap heap of history.” Read more
