polygamy
Woman tied to Arizona polygamous leader accused of threats
By Jacques Billeaud — April 14, 2023
PHOENIX (AP) — The indictment of Josephine Barlow Bistline marks the fourth woman associated with self-declared prophet Samuel Bateman to face federal charges.
Utah lawmakers get tough on porn, ease up on polygamy
By Lindsay Whitehurst — February 19, 2020
(AP) — Easing the severity of Utah's historically strong polygamy ban, the state hopes to encourage more frequent reporting of abuses.
Reinventing religion, millennials rewrite the rules of relationships
By Tara Isabella Burton — May 2, 2019
(RNS) — Creating bespoke religious traditions as they are, it makes sense that millennials would also create bespoke relationship models.
Most municipal workers quit in Utah polygamous sect town
By Brady McCombs — March 10, 2018
(AP) — Mayor Jessop said all of (those resigning) are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that practices polygamy.
Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty to escape, fraud
By Lindsay Whitehurst — September 21, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — 'We're not out to punish people of faith, people with sincerely held religious beliefs. We're out to punish fraudsters. Lyle Jeffs is now a convicted fraudster,' U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber said.
Polygamy’s becoming more acceptable. Is this the ‘Sister Wives’ effect?
By Jana Riess — August 1, 2017
Nearly one in five Americans see polygamy as morally acceptable, says Gallup. How do Mormons feel about it, and why?
Fugitive polygamous sect leader arrested in South Dakota
By Barbara Goldberg — June 15, 2017
(Reuters) He had been on the run for a year, since he fled house arrest in Salt Lake City, awaiting trial with other leaders of the religious sect on charges they diverted money from a federal government food assistance program for the poor.
US top court rebuffs ‘Sister Wives’ challenge to anti-bigamy law
By Reuters — January 23, 2017
(REUTERS) Left standing is a lower court's ruling that threw out their claim that Utah's law violated their religious liberty rights.
Polygamy lives on in Mormon temple sealings
By Jana Riess — August 3, 2016
While plural marriage has officially been banned by the LDS Church for more than a hundred years, the truth and lived reality for many modern Mormon women is actually far more complicated. Tracy McKay-Lamb is one of those women.
Sex outside of marriage can be holy, according to this Christian minister
By Jonathan Merritt — July 21, 2016
"Good Christian Sex" is a Chicago pastor's attempt to free Christians from shame about having sex outside of marriage.
Polygamous church leader escapes pretrial Utah home confinement
By RNS staff — June 21, 2016
(Reuters) A leader of a Utah-based polygamous faith who has been charged in connection with a food stamp fraud and money laundering scheme has escaped from his pretrial home confinement.
Why same-sex marriage will pave the way to polygamy
By guest — June 20, 2016
(RNS) The arguments against polygamy are very closely parallel to the arguments against redefining marriage to include same-sex couples.
From polygamy to incest, confronting the Old Testament’s strange sexual standards
By Jonathan Merritt — April 8, 2016
Some of the Bible's passages are deeply troubling, and despite the wishful thinking of some Christians, are difficult to reason away.
The first Mormon women: Polygamy, healings, and more
By Jana Riess — April 6, 2016
Membership in Relief Society used to be something you had to apply for, and several other surprises from the first 50 years of Mormon women's history.
Same-sex guidelines come from Mormons’ feeling as ‘a people apart’
By Kimberly Winston — November 11, 2015
(RNS) The new policies make the LDS church, with about 15 million members globally, the largest Christian denomination to enact such a formal — and some say draconian — policy. Children of same-sex couples are effectively denied baptism and other ordinances of the church.
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