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Professor Hamamoto of Cultural Forensics® follows up on the recommendation of a “Patreonista” to comment on the “Sullivan Institute” that recruited its members from the social and culture elite of New York City.
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| Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her partner Jane Rounthewaite attend the Starry Night Gala at WorldPride in Toronto |
In a 91 page opinion in Brown v. Buhman, federal district judge Clark Waddoups has concluded that Utah's anti-bigamy statute is partially unconstitutional. ...
The judge's scholarly opinion includes a discussion of Edward Said's groundbreaking book Orientalism as a critique of the well-known passage in the United States Supreme Court’s 1879 decision in Reynolds v. United States upholding the criminalization of polygamy by reasoning, in part, that "Polygamy has always been odious among the northern and western nations of Europe, and, until the establishment of the Mormon Church, was almost exclusively a feature of the life of Asiatic and of African people." ...
However, the judge did find that "the cohabitation prong does not survive rational basis review under the substantive due process analysis." (more...)