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Utahns agreed to give up polygamy in order to join the Union. It's almost the opposite of the current situation in Hong Kong.
by cageface 7y ago
Utahns 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.