Polygamy is outlawed in the state constitution, but there are still likely hundreds of Arizonans who engage in plural ...
Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, had pleaded guilty to a yearslong ...
Samuel Bateman was sentenced to prison in Arizona after claiming more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls.
Polygamy is a remnant of the early teachings ... Fundamentalist Mormons, said to number more than 30,000 across the western United States, believe they are adhering to the truest form of Mormon ...
The leader of a polygamous group who declared himself a prophet and spent months in Lincoln taking several girls as wives and ...
Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...
Some Islamic scholars have called for the re-orientation of people about polygamy. According to them, polygyny is not as bad as being painted in the society. These were part of the submissions ...
We made use of polygamy." Polygamy became illegal in the United States in 1862. The Supreme Court's anti-polygamy ruling in Reynolds in 1879 was the first high court ruling to limit religious ...