News Round-up: Warren Jeffs Edition

Yesterday, Warren Jeffs‘ conviction was overturned and the Utah Supreme Court ordered a retrial, and today the world is all a-twitter with the case.  It turns out that polygamy is just as interesting to news readers today as it was in the 1890s.

• Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting their turns to get their hands on Jeffs.  Even if he survives yet another trial in Utah, Jeffs has a long way to go before he’s in the clear. (Washington Post)
• Time points out, as did the Utah Supreme Court, that the actual rapist–er, accused rapist–in the Jeffs case, Mr. Allen Steed, hasn’t even gone to trial, yet. (Time)
• Up north, as in the Great White North, Canada is considering whether polygamy is constitutional.  And an anthropologist at Salon argues that it is not good for society, because it results in objectification of women–as if Hollywood didn’t do enough of that, already. (Salon)
• Lest it be forgotten, the FLDS (or Fundamental Latter-day Saints, not to be confused with the Mormons) have a perspective, too. (FLDS Legal Perspective)

…and that’s just a few perspectives, today. If that’s not enough on marriage, there’s always the Defense of Marriage Act for you to think about. (Constitutional or unconstitutional? Discuss.) (Townhall.com)

(Oh, and don’t miss all these other stories on the case here below)

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• Court Tosses Conviction of Polygamist Leader (abcnews.go.com)
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• Utah Supreme Court got it right in Jeffs case (beliefnet.com)
• Warren Jeffs’ Rape Convictions Overturned: New Trial Ordered (nowpublic.com)
• Warren Jeffs’ Conviction Reversed By Utah Court (brainz.org)
• Polygamist Warren Jeffs’ rape conviction overturned (lawafterthebar.wordpress.com)