Following a contrary ruling in a custody case, a Utah judge is allowing children to visit their father in his polygamous community.
Joseph Compton and his wife divorced last year when he refused to stop dating a woman who was interested in becoming his second wife. Another judge previously barred the 50-year-old from taking his eight children to the 800-member polygamous community and talking to them about his fundamentalist beliefs, as the magistrate decided the exposure would entail "unnecessary and harmful conflict" with the children's monogamous upbringing. But Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel finds Fourth District Judge James Brady's latest ruling to be unsettling.
"The fact that this judge said that this will not significantly harm his children is really shocking," he notes. "But it isn't surprising, based on the fact that the polygamist activist community is basically following the playbook right out of the homosexual activist community."
Barber has warned many times on OneNewsNow that once homosexuals succeed in destroying traditional marriage, the next step is legalized polygamy. He points out that if the father were an illegal drug addict who surrounded himself with other addicts, the ruling of this custody case might have been different.
"The judge seems to think that the kids will not be harmed by exposure to this illegal activity," the Liberty Counsel attorney laments. "Polygamy is still illegal, and it is demonstrably harmful to children in that it basically removes the moral standards that every major world religion and thousands of years of history have held in place -- and that is that marriage is between one man and one woman."
So Barber concludes that "the judge is buying into and embracing a sexual relativist worldview that is commonplace in our pop culture today."
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