Insurance companies sue to get out of paying to defend Utah polygamous towns
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
A pair of insurance companies are suing to get out of covering two predominantly polygamous towns accused of operating as arms of the FLDS Church.
St. Paul Guardian Insurance Company and The Travelers Indemnity Company filed their lawsuit against Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, in December. The lawsuit was prompted by a Department of Justice case that accuses the twin towns on the Arizona border of policing and housing discrimination.
Filings in the DOJ case allege that town officials, including the local police, took orders from leaders of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In court documents, the insurance companies argue that their coverage does not include defending the towns in the DOJ case. Colorado City disagrees, according to court documents, arguing that the companies’ contracts mean they do have to pay up so the towns can defend themselves in the DOJ case.
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Our daughter has been researching a lot of genealogical stuff from our families, and just recently sent my husband a document she found about his father (who died in the late 1960s). It was a naturalization document from the US Department of Labor from 1924 (his father had emigrated from Wales as a young child and was apparently now applying for citizenship as an adult).
At any rate, after filling out the lines regarding date and place of birth and physical description, the applicant (or whoever was completing the form—I don't know from the handwriting) had to fill in the following:
It is my bona fide intention to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to (he filled in "George V, King of Great Britain & Ireland", of whom I now am a subject. I arrived at the port of ("New York"
I was really surprised to see that bit about polygamy. Given the anarchist incidents that had occurred in that era and earlier, I wasn't so surprised to see the requirement to renounce anarchism; but I was surprised that polygamy was something being watched so closely.
