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You can have two wives or marry someone of the same sex all you want, the government just won't recognize it. But it also won't stop you.


Perhaps not today (I'm unfamiliar with current federal laws on this), but for a considerable portion of US history the US federal government took your property and threw you in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds%E2%80%93Tucker_Act


Not true. Merely living together with your partner, if not legally married, can be a crime. E.g., punishable by 60 days in jail in Florida.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-01/us/florida.cohabitation.l...


That law is invalid, so not a big deal.




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