Earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., himself a Mormon, asked U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to create a federal task force to investigate polygamy sects in the Western U.S., particularly [Warren Jeffs]' church, a group in which girls as young as 13 are being married and hundreds of boys have been excommunicated and cut off from their parents in an alleged effort to reduce the elders' competition for wives. Still, in his letter, Reid's comments made clear he was referring to Utah's polygamy subculture in general as much as to Jeffs' community along the Utah-Arizona border. We don't have the resources, nor do I think that we should use our resources, to convict every polygamist in Utah, put them in jail and put 20,000 kids into foster care," [Mark Shurtl...
This paper sets the current debate about Canada's criminal law prohibiting polygamy in an historical, social and legal context, and argues that this law is constitutionally valid and sound social policy. Unlike the recognition of same-sex marriage, which promoted equality and saved government resources, the recognition of polygamy would promote inequality and impose costs on Canadian society. The social reality of polygamy is often exploitative of women and harmful to children, and its practice is contrary to fundamental Canadian values. If Canada's prohibition on polygamy is ruled unconstitutional, we would likely have to allow immigration by polygamous families. Western European countries, which allowed immigration by polygamous families in the past, experienced significant social and...
... isolated areas in Arizona, Idaho, Texas and Utah, and in Canada in the interior of British Columbia...
Salt Lake City--Tom Green of Provo, Utah, a Mormon fundamentalist who has five wives and th... attention to the continued practice of polygamy in Utah; it is estimated that 30,000 people still ...
... a heterosexual marriage that took place in Utah where, at the time, polygamy was lawful. (36) The ...
...Some religions permit polygamy -- Islam allows a man four wives -- and some, like...Jeffs is in jail in Utah and Blackmore may face charges in B.C. for polygam...
Polygamy drama a surprise success . We hardly knew ye, Bill...A show about a God-fearing Mormon family in Utah was taking over the time slot previously occupied ...
What is at issue is [Warren Jeffs]'s spiritual and temporal control. Jurors will hear testimony about how Jeffs determines who will marry because -- supposedly -- he is in direct contact with God, who reveals to him who is predestined to marry. So to reject an assigned marriage is to go against the will of God. Jeffs became prophet after his father's death in 2002. Since then, Jeffs has excommunicated more than 100 men, stripping them of their wives and children who were later reassigned to men loyal to him. Even though he was a fugitive for 15 months, he has overseen construction of new communities in Eldorado, Texas, Pringle, S.D., and Mancos, Colo. He banned school, the colour red and even the word 'fun.' Television, rock music, short-sleeved shirts for men and trousers for women are...
...Jurors in St. George, Utah, will have to determine over the next two weeks wh... Christ of Latter Day Saints renounced polygamy. The principle of plural marriage was set out by M...
... Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Utah, U.S.A. after the main group abolished polygamy in...
Jeffs, 50, was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, charged in Utah with "rape as an accomplice" for allegedly arranging a teenage girl's marriage to a man, and charged in Arizona with child sexual assault. Yesterday, B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal says Jeffs' rival, Winston Blackmore of the polygamous Bountiful commune near Creston, is a subject of a probe into allegations of sex crimes against children. In the wake of Jeffs' arrest, she fears for her four sisters and one niece whom she believes are in Jeffs' compounds in Colorado, Texas and South Dakota.
... Mormon church when the church banned polygamy more than a century ago. In B.C., police have focu...
The main question all self-aware viewers of TV's high-end serial dramas must ask themselves is this: How does something like Big Love, or The Tudors (or The Sopranos, for that matter), differ from a cheesy afternoon soap opera? I've enjoyed the series for its empathetic portrayal of so-called "blue America," the vast conservative heartland that believes in family values and voted against Barack Obama. It has made me, a godless liberal, a little less likely to jerk my knee in its normal direction. The late-night soaps Dallas and Dynasty in the '70s are the obvious forerunners of today's serial dramas. Hill Street Blues in the '80s was the first with brainy pretensions. Now, of course, they are a dime a dozen.
... night's third-season premiere of the HBO polygamy drama Big Love, I was shocked to learn that classy... Bill's three wives living as neighbours in Utah suburbia -- even though it allegedly has some real...
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