04-15-2008, 11:11 PM
Here is the way I see it, from my knowledge and from people I know that are polygamists. Most polygamists are married by religious ceremony only, no licenses or records with the state. So if they "marry" another wife under the legal age of state sex laws, and are "practicing" the marriage where in the girls are under legal age you are committing statutory rape because you aren't married in the states eyes. Most states don't care that you practice polygamy as long as all parties are of legal and consenting age.