Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <kpqdnbL7C8GUwYrVnZ2dnUVZ_quhnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Harmon <source@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:45:30 +0100 in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Brett Paul
Dunbar <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
In law, the Golden rule, or British rule, is a form of statutory
interpretation that allows a judge to depart from a word's normal
meaning in order to avoid an absurd result.

That is just so sad. It would have cheered me more than I can say,
to have seen all marriages in Texas declared illegal.

Surely not illegal, just void.

It would cheer you to see someone prosecuted for statutory rape because,
when he was eighteen, he had sex with his sixteen year old bride?

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