Kody Brown, the polygynist patriarch featured on the TV show Sister Wive’s, is suing Utah over polygamy. Specifically:

The lawsuit is not demanding that states recognize polygamous marriage. Instead, the lawsuit builds on a 2003 United States Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down state sodomy laws as unconstitutional intrusions on the “intimate conduct” of consenting adults. It will ask the federal courts to tell states that they cannot punish polygamists for their own “intimate conduct” so long as they are not breaking other laws, like those regarding child abuse, incest or seeking multiple marriage licenses.

Kody Brown could have solved his problems more easily by not ever getting a state marriage license in the first place. He is smart to have not gotten any more marriage licenses for his additional wives though. To safeguard his children from being taken away from the state he could have chosen not to get any of his children social security numbers or birth certificates.