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Is Bigamy now Legal?

Thanks the Martin Coles
Ironies:

“A Suggested letter to your MP

Basic to our culture, history and the very construction of our society is the protection we afford the potentially vulnerable through our ancient bigamy laws! Are they now to be ignored?

If so, have we then any remaining reason to trust in the belief system to which most of us try to adhere? A possible letter to those in authority, which I was copied from elsewhere might help. If discrminatory laws begin to be accepted, where will they ever end?

Dear (PM, Chancellor, MP etc),

I am very concerned to learn that the Treasury is contemplating making changes to the Tax Laws to make the Inheritance Tax laws fairer for the multiple wives of men whose religion allow more than one wife. Apparently, only one wife has any benefits from the taxation position at the moment.

Could you please let me know when our laws on Bigamy were amended to allow multiple marriages? If they have not been amended, can you please explain why men in this position appear not to have been prosecuted for bigamy and are their many wives able to claim any benefits from our society? If our laws have not been amended and it is proposed to continue to allow multiple wives, is it the Governments intention to repeal the law on Bigamy to enable the remainder of our society to engage in multiple marriages? If that is not the case, and those following this practice are not to be prosecuted, does this not mean that the action being taken is contrary to the laws against racial and religious discrimination? In which case, what action is proposed to ensure the laws of our land are applied to everybody equally?……………………………. (Amend and continue as you may of course choose!)”

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By Ken
On January 22, 2005
At 4:45 pm
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