A judge partially legalized polygamy in the State of Utah

The decision, pending appeal, gives the reason for the family of the television series 'Sister Wives'

The News Mormons who practiced polygamy in Utah they reached an important legal step on Wednesday, when a federal judge gave the reason of a well-known family in its litigation against the State. Laws of Utah prohibit marriage and also multiple cohabitation. This second part is unconstitutional, according to the judge Clark Waddoups. The de facto decision legalized polygamy in the State, provided that there is no legal marriage. The Mormons can live with few News women want to, but not formally married. The decision comes after three years of legal battle between the State of Utah and Kody Brown, famous for starring in the reality TV program Sister News Wives, where for the first time is counted as the most normal of the world, the life of a family with four wives (Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn) and 16 children. The program began in 2010 when the family lived in Lehi, Utah, and the prosecutor opened an investigation against Brown nothing more begin the series. Now living in Las Vegas. The prosecutor never came to denounce the Brown family, but the family reported to Utah by preventing them from practicing their religion freely. Waddoups The judge gives them reason and said that prohibit the cohabitation goes against the protection of individual liberties contained in the First Amendment of the Constitution. The judge had already given the reason to the Brown in December, but the sentence was suspended while deciding on the amount of damages caused. However, plaintiffs have resigned to be compensated financially apart from the cost of their legal representation. The family believes that it is important the case is the precedent of legalization of cohabitation, which in effect legalises live with several womenNews. The decision reduces the laws against polygamy in its strict sense: you can't have more of a marriage license. The family Brown sack a statement Wednesday in which he expressed appreciation for the work of their lawyers and called for News respect for the practice of their religion, despite being aware that many people disapproved the multiple marriages. The Utah attorney general, they are Kings, had announced that it would use the sentence to the Court of Appeals before that was made public on Wednesday the final decision. However, the Thursday had not yet confirmed if he would. News Multiple marriages are illegal throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. However, some members of the communities of Utah's Mormon continue practicing legal manner and more or less tolerated where have much presence, provided that it is not call much attention. It is estimated that some 38,000 Mormons practice polygamy in Utah. Fiction gave some tracks with the series Big Love, but this reality became evident when in 2010 the TLC tv channel News began broadcasting Sister wives. Since then, the Brown are a famous family that on your web page account of their daily life. Anne Wilde, founder of the group Principle Voices, which defends polygamy, told the Associated Press Thursday that with this decision the Mormon families would no longer have to live with fear of the justice. "Now that we are not criminals, it is a great relief. We will not have to fear that someone will be able to knock on the door and take away the children. I hope that this decision eliminates the stigma of living under a principle that is a strong religious belief". The seven million Mormons in the USA had their moment of greatest public exhibition in the presidential elections of 2012. Republican Mitt Romney was the News first candidate in this religion fears and prejudices in good part of the American society. Romney is a devout follower of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the two largest congregations of Mormons together with the Apostolic United Brotherhood. There are 15,000 fundamentalist Mormons who do not belong to any of the two, according to data collected by AP.