WTF Moment of the Day
You know how the last season of HBO’s “Big Love” seemed a little too unrealistic. Well, TLC — home of totally normal reality TV families such as the Duggars and the Gosselins — decided to give us a realer look at polygamy. Here’s a preview of “Sister Wives.”
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Wait, isn’t polygamy illegal? Are they breaking the law or lying about being “wives”?
I’m wondering the same.
Is this real? They are really doing this show?
Yep.
Here’s the L.A. Times’ on the show’s announcement:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/06/entertainment/la-et-0806-tlc-reality-20100806
it’s only legal if you have actual legal marriages to multiple spouses. the first wife is legal, the sister wives are only “spiritual” marriages – which is quite problematic since they have very of few legal rights that marriage affords.
When I worked in Utah it was commonplace to see groups of Sister-Wives all over the place. The legality of that situation was that they were only married in the church, but unrecognized by the state, thus qualifying for state benefits as single mothers. The outdoor theatre company that I worked for leased all of their livestock for the productions from one family, and indicated that it was common practice for movie crews to lease livestock from them as well. They’ve got some real legal issues up there, from what I could gather the women would live in half finished home so that they didn’t have to pay taxes and lots of other things that they did to skirt the law.
First off, I’m Mormon. I don’t go to church anymore, but I always like to stick up for them. Hope everyone knows that these people are NOT Mormon. They use to be, like 150 years ago. Now they have their own, wholly separate religion AND CULTURE. If you’re a real Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and you have 1+ wives.. you get excommunicated. I lived in Utah and Idaho for like 3 years. It was weird to see these 2 cultures living side by side. My boss was a polygamist. He was quiet about it, but after he explained it to me, I guess I stopped thinking it was the weirdest thing in the world.
I gotta tell you though, from a married dudes’ point of view. THESE POLYGAMIST HUSBANDS ARE INSANE.
I’m taking applications for “Brother Husbands” right now.
I need someone to occupy my Thursdays.
Anyone?
NOTE ON MSJOEY’S REQUEST:
By “occupy,” she means:
entertain
fetch
fan
peel grapes
rub feet
massage knees
dance, mf, DANCE
and do NOT speak unless spoken to
I applied last year for Tuesday. I was 198th in line (I waited overnight). I didn’t get past the 3rd set of judging, never got to actually meet MsJoey.
Looks like the Prop H8ers were right all along…
Umm…Wow.
So like, this is his foray into brunettes, then.