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Oh come on I was trying to illustrate a feeling, not make a watertight legal argument. If you want to talk about precedent - how about polygamy in Utah? There
by sho 7y ago
Oh come on I was trying to illustrate a feeling, not make a watertight legal argument.
If you want to talk about precedent - how about polygamy in Utah? There was a long precedent of that. Substitute that if you like. I was trying to convey a feeling.
- cageface 7y agoUtahns agreed to give up polygamy in order to join the Union. It's almost the opposite of the current situation in Hong Kong.
- sounds 7y agoAs a Mormon I still think this might be a reasonable case to use for the basis of comparison. (Alas I don't speak for any other Mormons, who will probably disagree with me.) User 'sho' wants to present Hong Kong's efforts to preserve their rights in a way that the USA would understand. When Utah wanted to become a state, they obviously would have liked to preserve their polygamy practice. It took a long time before things settled down and Utah became a state. In a sense, that's where Hong Kong is right now. "One country, two systems." They aren't a fully-integrated part of the country, though I don't want to delegitimize them by calling them a "territory," maybe the comparison isn't so bad. There's pressure from the mainland to conform. Just like there was lots of pressure put on Utah to conform. It seems like a decent comparison.