It’s worse than that. I think the cops are trying to say “Look at what we deal with every day, aren’t we heroes? Don’t you feel bad for us?” They are using a child’s circumstance to elevate themselves, that is highly cynical.

He’s a host. I have no doubt he can be incredibly charming and charismatic. However, I have heard stories which make me think he is an insecure douche behind closed doors.

*beigies

I’m totally gonna go Chris Crocker & shout:

Britney is such a treasure trove of facial expressions.

Yeah, I think it's the go-to assessment everyone has when being aware he exists. But then again, why would anyone care if he was gay? Why would he need a beard? No one gives a shit.

I would take a million Brian Dunkelmans over Seacrest*

I find him uncanny valley and am surprised by this story only because I didn’t think he interacted with humans outside a studio, where his recharging station is nearby.

Yeah, I’m still experiencing Britney’s moment when she realized that Ryan Seacrest isn’t gay.

I kind of need him to get back together with Julianne Hough so they can have the beigest babies to ever beige.

I think you should probably look into the issues surrounding Mormon polygamous marriage before making such sweeping pronouncements.

Personally, as long as everyone is happy with the agreement, I give zero shits about how many people are in a marriage.

Yeah, it’s an abusive practice whatever the legalities are. Someone downthread said something that was a lightbulb for me. This way they can go after crimes where the victim of abuse doesn’t see herself as a victim of abuse. Either you get married off to an old man at fourteen and you hate it and try to escape, or you…

Check out Warren Jeff’s and his band of merry pranksters. Young girls are most certainly being forced into poly marriages, and it is the government’s business to stop it.

Specifically the culture of a very very small and unusual sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The mainstream Latter Day Saints more-or-less punted polygamy in 1890, and then more definitively in 1904. Tedious details at Mormonism and polygamy. The majority of mainstream Mormons don’t…

Utah’s law enforcement has a history of dealing with these people, and they insist this makes it easier to make polygamist bastards do time for the shit they do in their god’s name.

These “marriages” are off the books, not least of all because the bride is underage, and consent nonexistent.

Because the underage “wives" are often second, third, etc wives or spiritual wives. The law allows Utah to prosecute the men who collect teenage wives, who are often given away by their families which makes it harder to arrest anyone.

The legal age to marry in Utah is 15.

“It seems like something easier to police by enforcing birth (and marriage) registration laws in the first place.”

Geography plays a big part in making this difficult. It’s really hard to emphasis just how cut-off a lot of FLDS communities are. Some of them are literally hundreds of miles away from ANY kind of…