Key parts of Utah’s polygamy law have been declared unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge. Judge Clark Waddoups issued a 91 page ruling in which he declared the “cohabitation prong of the Statute unconstitutional on numerous grounds.” To clarify, polygamous marriage is still illegal, but Utah had also made it illegal to cohabitate with an adult who is not your legal spouse. The ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by Kody Brown, who lives with four women and has a reality television show called “Sister Wives” on TLC. Brown filed the lawsuit in July 2011 and argued that Utah’s law violated their right to privacy. The lawsuit’s argument relied heavily on the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas law banning sodomy, based on the right to privacy. The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head again. After the ruling, Brown issued a statement through his attorney and said, “While we know that many people do […] → Keep reading