Polygamy in the News

Equality Celebration garners support, promotes resolve
Dixie Press Online
Black has won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO television series “Big Love,” which depicted a polygamist family living in Utah, and an Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk. Lance Black also narrated “8: The Mormon Proposition ...

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Why We've Opened Our Doors For Polygamy USA
Religion Dispatches
While the vast majority of Mormons belong to the LDS Church, which renounced polygamy at the end of the 19th century, a number of independent groups have since broken from the Church over various doctrinal differences—including plural marriage.

Woman seeks asylum to escape polygamy under Swazi king's rule
Global Times
... Olympics · Miscellany · Rugby World Cup · METRO · Metro Beijing · Metro Shanghai · ODD · COMMUNITY · Beijing · Shanghai · Xi'an · Tibet · Xinjiang · Learning Chinese · 25 Latest Articles. Woman seeks asylum to escape polygamy under Swazi king's ...

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LGBT community preps for fundraiser
St. George Daily Spectrum
Black, who was raised in a Mormon household, was a writer for the HBO series Big Love, which depicted a polygamist family living in Utah, and he narrated “8: The Mormon Proposition,” a documentary depicting the LDS Church's involvement in California's ...

Maungdaw authorities restrict Bengalis' polygamy, birth rates
Eleven Myanmar
Authorities in Rakhine State's Maungdaw district have given a regional order restricting polygamous marriages among the Bengali people as a way to curb their birth rate, an official from the district's Immigration and Manpower department said yesterday.

the Cleveland Kidnapping and Anti-Polygamy Literature
Patheos (blog)
Along the way, we perused the fictional Maria Monk captivity narrative and considered anti-polygamy literature. In her story, Maria Monk becomes a nun and upon her induction into a convent is immediately forced to be the sexual slave to priests who ...

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'Defiance' Syfy Episode 6 Review: 'The Serpent's Egg' Has Polygamy, Torture ...
Latinos Post
Defiance returned last night with "The Serpent's Egg." The episode finds Nolan and Irisa separated for the first time since the pilot, with the head Lawkeeper escorting Amanda and the money Defiance is using to fund their railway. Along for the ride is ...
Defiance may be turning into the great scifi series we were promised - Io9io9

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HitFix (blog)
Exclusive: Survey says 'Polygamy, USA' lifestyle not okay with most
HitFix (blog)
If you're watching the NatGeo show "Polygamy, USA" (Tues. at 9:00 p.m.), you may have mixed feelings about what you're seeing as the show follows a community of fundamentalist Mormons practicing the unconventional lifestyle. The network recently ...

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Tajik Opposition Figure Accused Of Theft, Polygamy
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Meanwhile, on May 11, prosecutors searched Saidov's home and questioned his sons over polygamy allegations. Saidov and several Tajik businessmen and academics announced in April that they were creating a “New Tajikistan” party. Saidov says the ...

Polygamy and DOMA
Salt Lake Tribune
An estimated 50,000 to 150,000 polygamous families already live in America, from the well-publicized Muslims and Mormons to the African and Vietnamese immigrants keeping up their cultural ways. From modern feminists looking for a better work/life ...

Army man charged with polygamy
The Hindu
The City Police are on the lookout for an army cook - Joseph alias Philip Joseph – against who charges of polygamy and have been filed. According to police, Joseph alias Philip Joseph had allegedly married four women and had also harassed one of them ...

'Polygamy USA' examines Arizona's other polygamists
Salt Lake Tribune (blog)
Whatever the answer, your about to learn a lot more thanks to "Polygamy USA," a new series that premiered Tuesday on the National Geographic Channel. According to the website, the show offers an unprecedented look at the "rites, rituals and lives" of ...

Polygamy, Mass Murder, and the End of Capitalism: The Top Ten Religious ...
People For the American Way (press release)
Pastor Harry Jackson said conservatives can win their fight against marriage equality if they succeed in convincing Americans about gay marriage's dire consequences, such as the “automatic” legalization of polygamy. “If same-sex marriage is allowed to ...

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The “Consider This!” Podcast, Episode 40: Listener Feedback on Polygamy, and ...
Blogger News Network (blog)
I got our first e-mail listener feedback from what I talked about last episode, regarding whether or not legalizing same-sex marriage necessarily leads to polygamy. I thought it had to, but one listener took on my challenge to come up with a scenario ...

Polygamy and Sex in Morocco
Al-Monitor
In fact, according to the study “Islam in Daily Life in Morocco,” by sociologists Mohamed El Ayadi, Hassan Rachik and Mohamed Tozy, 44% of the Moroccan population supports polygamy. Even more surprising, this same study reveals that “[public] opinion ...

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Polygamy USA—Nat Geo's Intimate Look at a Subculture of Plural Marriages
CableFAX
Many Americans' familiarity with polygamist communities begins and ends at the well-publicized child abuse crimes of Warren Jeffs, head of the FLDS [Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]. Or possibly HBO's popular scripted drama ...

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Polygamy USA—Nat Geo's Intimate Look at a Subculture of Plural Marriages
CableFAX
By Kaylee Hultgren. Many Americans' familiarity with polygamist communities begins and ends at the well-publicized child abuse crimes of Warren Jeffs, head of the FLDS [Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]. Or possibly HBO's ...

Channel Guide Magazine (blog)
“Polygamy USA” follows Arizona Fundamentalist Mormons
Channel Guide Magazine (blog)
Polygamy USA. Premiering Tuesday, May 7, at 9pm ET/PT on National Geographic Channel, Polygamy, USA goes inside the daily lives of a Fundamentalist Mormon community in Arizona, in which plural marriages are widely practiced as a religious tradition.

Reality Show "Polygamy, USA" Boggles Then Opens the Mind
Babble
Watching Polygamy, USA– the real life version of Big Love– didn't inspire much envy in me. Though the women in this community do get to choose which men to marry and some get to work outside the home as teachers or nurses, mostly they seem to spend ...

Reality Show "Polygamy, USA" Boggles Then Opens the Mind
Babble
During the pilot episode of the documentary series, “Polygamy, USA,” two women are out on a date with their husband talking about how they need a new wife. Wife One says to Wife Two that she'd prefer a new wife who can cook interesting meals, maybe a ...