I Didn't Meet a Single Pro-Polygamy No-On-8'er. Did you?

This election cycle, with Prop 8 on deck and all, I was really hoping to get at least one of my "No on 8" colleagues or neighbors to come out in favor of marriage equality for polygamists.  Don't believe the hype, folks.  The gay lobby isn't the least bit interested in expanding marital rights to people of alternative persuasions--not even (hyper-)reproductive forms of marriage.  They are only interested in expanding the definition of marriage to include themselves, and that's it. Very disappointing.  Oh well.

I had a lot of fun asking the question, anyway.  If the polygamists are smart, they'll leave Utah and start migrating to California.

Polygamist Sect Distributes Voter Guide - FOXNews.com Elections

SALT LAKE CITY -- One of Utah's original voting blocs -- polygamists -- is attempting to re-establish its political influence after more than a century of largely trying to go unnoticed.

Communities in Harmony, an alliance of representatives from various Utah polygamous groups, has issued a voter's guide to assist Utah's polygamists with Election Day decision-making.

"We need the candidates to know that they are just as accountable to us as they are to other constituents," Carlene Cannon, the group's spokeswoman and a member of the Davis County Cooperative Society, which practices polygamy.

Polygamy is a legacy of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The faith brought the practice to Utah in the 1840s but abandoned it in 1890 as a condition of statehood. Self-described fundamentalist Mormons continue to believe the principle brings glorification in heaven and maintain the practice mostly in secret.

But recent events have many fundamentalists placing a renewed focus on participating in the political process. In 2005, Utah courts took over a polygamous church's property trust, and this year a highly publicized raid on the same sect's ranch at Eldorado, Texas, put more than 400 children in state custody.