Supreme Court Case Of Polygamy

One of the larger items being discussed is the court’s right to be in religious practices. Although explicitly defined in the first amendment is the Freedom of Religion, polygamist did not gain this right within their religion. The Supreme Court case also discussed the right to control the influence over the church’s members, or potential members. The church’s land would have given them the ability to reach a larger community. The courts also felt they had this right to intervene in the Mormon practice of polygamy and did not feel they infringed on First Amendment rights. The Courts practiced the right to decide what religious practices allowed in in the United States. Although this case did not take away the Mormon religion the case did take away a fundamental Mormon practice. …show more content…
The courts had no separation of public opinion and the Constructional rights. The Courts placed this practice with the same level as human sacrifice and used that as justification for stopping this practice. Unlike the other practices loss of human autonomy and human rights were maintained in the polygamy practice, unlike the other practices. The direction of the court indicates that they felt they had the right to control extreme religious practices. The polygamy aspect was included in the same classification as Human sacrifice. This showed how society opposed the idea of polygamy. The strange religious practice differently from the main stream practices; polygamy had the same taboo context as murder. This also expressed that there was no definition on what extreme religion include and what acceptable religion practices entailed. The Supreme Court had the full right to decide this boundary, at this time polygamy was within this