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Article: Polygamy: does the Supreme Court have its limits?
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- Catholic Insight
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- May 1, 2009
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Legal feminists are hard at work spreading the idea among fellow atheists that polygamy cannot be prohibited in order to protect women, and that being so, it should no longer be proscribed. In the Globe of April 6, 2009, Susan Drummond, who teaches family law at Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School, published the article "A marriage of fear and xenophobia. Our criminalization of polygamy is not about protecting women. " She was closely seconded by Beverly Baines in the article "The constitutional challenge of polygamy", The Lawyers Weekly, April 17. Baines is professor of law at Queens' University known for its notorious coterie of radical feminists who have dominated the ...