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	Polygamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some polygamous families use a system of multiple divorce and legal marriage as a loophole in order to avoid committing a criminal act.
		In 2001, the state of Utah in the United States convicted Thomas Green of criminal non-support and four counts of bigamy for having 5 serially monogamous marriages, while living with previous legally divorced wives.
		The ACLU of Utah is opposed to Utah's law against bigamy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polygamous (6676 words)

	Polygamous Mormon fundamentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polygamous Mormon fundamentalists are sects devoted to Mormon fundamentalism who continue to practice plural marriage (a form of polygamy), even though that practice has been abandoned by the larger mainstream denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.
		Many polygamous Mormon fundamentalists belong to sects that have separated themselves from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially abandoned the practice in 1890.
		The Kingston clan is one of the clans which has allowed the marriage of underage girls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polygamous_Mormon_fundamentalists (1150 words)

	Polygamy - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 2001, however, the state of Utah in the United States convicted Tom Green of criminal non-support and four counts of bigamy for having 5 serially monogomous marriages, while living with previous legally divorced wives.
		In 2005, the state attorneys-general of Utah and Arizona issued a primer (http://www.attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy.html) on helping victims of domestic violence and child abuse in polygamous communities.
		Historically, it was this implicit lack of choice for women in the specifically fundamentalist Mormon polygamous situations, that caused many anti-polygamists to inaccurately equate all polygamy in general as somehow being against women.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Polygamy (4387 words)

	WLUML: Calls for Action
		Polygamous marriages are practiced on a large scale especially in the State of Utah, but in neighbouring U.S. states as well.
		Utah and Arizona officials say they lack the legal authority to monitor whether children removed from schools are being taught in their communities or the qualifications of people who may be providing instruction.
		Utah did not raise its minimum age of marriage to 16 until 1999, and girls as young as 14 can still be married with their parents' consent.
	www.wluml.org /english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[156]=i-156-3124 (2664 words)

	Principle Voices - Polygamy on trial: Dissent by Utah's chief justice gives us pause
		The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that Rodney Holm was guilty of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor when he consummated a polygamous marriage to a 16-year-old girl, his third spiritual wife.
		The court may assert that Utah society has declared polygamy harmful, but it is difficult to see how people who enter a non-state-sanctioned relationship openly and without deceiving anyone else, as many Utahns - gay and straight, monogamous or otherwise - do today, harm the state or the institution of monogamous marriage.
		Utah should prosecute the crimes that arise from polygamy without inviting the state to be the arbiter of consensual sexual behavior in private.
	www.principlevoices.org /article.php?story=20060519071936753 (840 words)

	Bill Stockton's Satirium Satire Humor Parody Satirical Headlines \| Utah Polygamist Marries Himself in Defiance of the ...
		Experts on Utah's polygamous clans said they believed it was the first time that a polygamist had married himself.
		Grayson, who is 73 years old and says he hasn't trimmed his beard since 1953, stared pensively at his reflection in a full-length mirror that had been erected as part of bridal arbor on the edge of an alfalfa field.
		Vinzetti of the Polygamy Institute said that the act of an elder marrying oneself in a polygamous group would normally be seen as a means of testifying to the unity of the clan.
	www.satirium.com /pages/daily_vol1/polygamy.html (569 words)

	Utah Govinor, Mike Leviett in Political Minefield
		He cited three reasons: lack of proof, since most polygamous marriages take place in private and are not documented; case law preventing children from being removed from a polygamous home; and higher priorities for law enforcement.
		Not so polygamy, which is alive and well in Utah, where there are more polygamous unions today than there ever were in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints formally condemned the practice as a condition of statehood for Utah.
		Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt said July 23 during a news conference that he thought the practice of polygamy might qualify for freedom of religion protection under the U.S. Constitution.
	www.ldshistory.net /1990/leavitt.htm (3424 words)

	CHILD - SPEAK
		Washington County, Utah, prosecutor Brock Belnap is investigating deaths of children in the FLDS community popularly known as Short Creek and incorporated as Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.
		Utah’s new law clarifying their right to emancipation at age 16 is a severely inadequate tool for preventing the pain and suffering the lost boys experience.
		Utah has a law at Utah Code 76-5-110 making it a felony to neglect a disabled child (unless the caregiver has religious objections to medical care), but it is not a felony to neglect a “normal” child.
	www.childrenshealthcare.org /polygamous.htm (3862 words)

	Current Status of America's Wall of Church-State Separation: Utah
		The victim said that at age seven, when she reported the rape by a church member to church officials, they told her to "forgive, forget and seek atonement", and referred her to a counselor who told her not to call the police.
		Utah County Attorney David Wayment argues the exemptions don't apply to Mooney, who is not enrolled in a tribe and administers peyote primarily to whites.
		Utah has no religious exemption in the civil code related to care of sick children, but...
	www.infidels.org /activist/state/utah.shtml (1584 words)

	Polygamy Rape of Rachael Strong
		Utah is located in the western United States, and Salt Lake City is the capital.
		In large part due to the influence of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah is one of the most conservative and Republican states in the nation, and about 90% of elected officials in the Utah Legislature are members of the Church.
		Utah prosecutors no longer prosecute polygamy between consenting adults, which the Attorney General has described as a "religious tenet," but which in effect challenges the 1878 Supreme Court ruling.
	www.utahbooks.com /Polygamy_Rape_of_Rachael_Strong.htm (2806 words)

	Two Many Wives - fight against polygamy Insight on the News - Find Articles
		Most of those are in the Rocky Mountain West, although polygamous clans also have been identified in Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to Ron Barton, who led the investigation for the Utah Attorney General's Office.
		The largest polygamous community is in the twin border towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, a remote spot whose 10,000 residents are nearly all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including the mayor and sheriff.
		Plural marriage was commonly practiced in Utah until the federal government made statehood contingent upon the abolition of polygamy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_17_17/ai_74694251 (829 words)

	biology - Polygamy
		In 2001, however, the state of Utah convicted Tom Green of criminal non-support and four counts of bigamy for having 5 serially monogomous marriages, while living with previous legally divorced wives.
		Having used that system of multiple divorce and marriage to defraud the state's welfare system, his cohabitation was considered evidence of a common-law marriage to the wives he had divorced while still living with them.
		As that case applies only to Utah, it is therefore not a nationwide precedent on common-law marriage and polygamy.
	biosphere.biologydaily.com /biology/Polygamy (3568 words)

	Time to end abuse, welfare fraud in polygamist clans
		The Utah Constitution states "polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited."The obvious lack of enforcement hurts our state on two separate levels.
		First, the lifelong negative ramifications caused by abuse to both the women and children involved in polygamy are devastating.
		The very basic of human and civil rights are often denied polygamous children and women.
	childbrides.org /abuses_Howell_time_to_end_abuse.html (623 words)

	Green Conviction Makes Polygamous Clans Wary
		News of the conviction was sending chilling ripples through Utah's polygamist communities Saturday when the subject came up for a panel discussion during the Mormon History Association convention at Southern Utah State University.
		Actually, half of those in plural marriages in Utah are independent of organized sects.
		Less misinformation and more understanding are needed if Utah is to avoid returning to the kind of anti-polygamy sentiments that led to raids on plural marriage settlements in the 1940s and 1950s, when fathers were jailed and families broken up, the women said.
	www.rickross.com /reference/polygamy/polygamy60.html (490 words)

	Polygamous clans in the US - America's Debate
		Some escapees are now prosecuting their abusers, to shed light on this; for statutory rape, incest or anything else they can find legally, because the marriages are 'spiritual marriages' and non-prosecutable by law, the 'forced' polygamy being too hard to prove.
		Their arguement is 1.) religious freedom 2.) that polygamy focuses males on their true function, claiming the rest of the country suffers divorce, broken homes etc. 3.) that they are thinking human beings able to discern what is right and wrong for themselves.
		Young men often are forced out of the clans to go live in the cities, with little education and no way to survive except the basic wage, because the patriarchs do not allow them to advance quickly enough, and take the youngest women/girls for themselves.
	www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3886&mode=threaded (959 words)

	One Former LDS Fundamentalist Polygamist group understands funding very well. ;^)
		A young girl's desperate attempt to flee a polygamous marriage to her uncle has put the Kingston clan where it doesn't want to be: in the public spotlight.
		The church, however, publicly renounced polygamy in 1890 and, as a condition of gaining statehood for Utah in 1896, political leaders were forced to include a ban on the practice in Article III of the state's constitution, which ensures religious freedom while "forever" prohibiting polygamous or plural marriages.
		The population of polygamist clans in the West is typically estimated at 30,000, though disaffected members of such groups say the number may be as high as 60,000.
	www.xmission.com /~plporter/lds/kingston.htm (1677 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		Recent media reports indicate that girls from Utah and surrounding states are being trafficked to Canada for marriage to polygamous men in the province of British Columbia.
		In one well-publicized case in 1998, a 16 year-old girl escaped from a clan after being whipped into unconsciousness by her father for running away from her husband.
		The abuse includes: Physical and mental harm caused by violence and abuse; the harmful effects of child marriage on a girl’s health, educational opportunities and psychosocial development; and the harmful emotional and psychological consequences of isolation within communities that instill a belief in women’s subordination.
	www.hri.ca /tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2647 (1251 words)

	Principle Voices - * Polygamy News
		Utah law defines bigamy as a married person purporting to marry or cohabiting with someone other than his or her spouse.
		Under Utah law, a union does not have to be legally sanctioned to be considered marriage, so the bigamy statute could also apply to a polygamous arrangement where no unions were legally recognized, say lawyers on both sides of the issue.
		Before that, the Utah Supreme Court had upheld polygamist Tom Green's conviction of bigamy, criminal non-support and child rape, for taking a 13-year-old girl as one of his wives.
	www.principlevoices.org /index.php?topic=polynews&page=5 (2408 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bigamy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was publicly taught by the Church in 1852, and quickly led to persecution of the Latter-day Saints and the enacting of laws against its practice (the United States Congress made the practice illegal in U.S. Territories in 1862).
		Increasingly harsh antipolygamy legislation stripped Latter-day Saints of their rights as citizens, disincorporated the Church, and permitted the seizure of Church property before the Church ordered the discontinuance of the practice in 1890.
		Most of the polygamy is believed to be retricted to about a dozen extended clans.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bigamy (1109 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That vision was eroded by the ceding of the Utah Territory to the United States in 1850, after the Mexican War, and by the subsequent admission of Utah as a state, in 1896.
		The epic migration of Smith's followers to Utah produced a people who were at once self-reliant and wary—"a sociological island of fanatic believers dedicated to a creed that the rest of America thought either vicious or mad," the novelist Wallace Stegner, an admirer, wrote of them.
		Utah has been called the land of milk and cookies, because of the vast consumption of these products (although Jell-O was recently voted the official state snack food).
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?020121fa_FACT1 (11173 words)

	Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake Tribune Home Page
		Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has turned to experienced Salt Lake City attorneys Walter Bugden and Tara Isaacson to defend him against two rape-related charges.
		He knows that he will be directing his Utah Utes against a Utah State team on Saturday that has allowed 58 points and more than 900 yards of offense in back-to-back losses on the road to start the season.
		A top scientist in imaging technology used in mining and his linguist wife, both living in Utah, have joined the flood of immigrants accusing the U.S. government of taking too long to process paperwork that would put them on the path to citizenship.
	www.sltrib.com /2001/may/05202001/utah/utah.htm (535 words)

	America's Debate > Polygamous clans in the US
		I have also personally been in a polygamous aquaintences household, and none of the women he was married too were underage or forced when he married them.
		The abuses connected to polygamous unions should be enough to condemn the practice and have law enforcment rounding these guys up and sending them to prison.
		Rodney Holm is charged in Utah with three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16- or 17-year-old and one count of bigamy, stemming from his marriage to Ruth Stubbs Holm, his third wife.
	www.americasdebate.com /forums/simple/index.php/t3886.html (3385 words)

	Mormon News 08Feb02: Activists Call for End to Human Rights Ab
		Media and activist sources have documented a pattern of abuse against women and girls in polygamous families involving violence, child marriage, trafficking, coerced marriage of adult women, sexual abuse, and incest.
		Women and girls who have fled polygamous families report that religious teachings emphasize their duty to submit to the authority of their fathers, husbands, and male religious leaders, and link polygamy to their spiritual salvation.
		A number of police officers, prosecutors and high-ranking politicians continue to defer to the "privacy" of polygamous groups or the religious nature of their beliefs.
	www.mormonstoday.com /020208/A2PolygAbuse01.US.UT.SLC.shtml (1414 words)

	Green Consciousness: US Taliban Oppresses Women - Send the troops to Utah
		The first part of the show focused on the incredibly high number of boy children, approximately 65-70%, who are simply kicked out of the polygamous clans in Mormon Utah because they compete with the older men for the girls.
		We are deeply concerned by reports indicating a pattern of polygamy-related abuses in Utah, and states throughout the U.S. Women and girls in polygamous families are subjected to violence, child marriage, trafficking, the coerced marriage of adult women, and sexual abuse, including incest.
		Recent reports indicate that girls from Utah and surrounding states are being trafficked to Canada for marriage to polygamous men in the province of British Columbia.In one well-publicized case in 1998, a 16-year-old girl escaped from the Kingston family clan after being whipped into unconsciousness by her father for running away from her husband.
	www.greenconsciousness.org /weblog/2005/07/us-taliban-oppresses-women-send-troops.html (3519 words)

	Mormon News for WE 11May01: Polygamy Remain's Controversial Sh
		His story and the recent history of polygamy in Utah among the descendants of the Mormon pioneers is told in a lengthy article in the Washington Times' weekly magazine "Insight on the News."
		In Utah, polygamy is outlawed both by statue and the state constitution.
		Advocacy groups and legislators are cracking down on polygamy in Utah, but fundamentalist Mormons are fighting back, coming out of the closet to assert their religious beliefs.
	www.mormonstoday.com /010511/N5Polygamy01.shtml (485 words)

	Adherents.com
		Then he met a young woman who had been so abused by a cult, he saw only one way to gain her trust for treatment.
		Now Butt lives in Utah with three wives and five children, ministering to a group of nearly 1,000 around the country who call themselves Christian polygamists...
		"Utah polygamists estimated at 25,000 " in Deseret News, Saturday, 24 April 1999.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_521.html (3403 words)

	Smith History Vault: Magazine Articles: 1850s part 2
		In the first place, the inhabitants of Utah have as yet no legal title to their land, for they have taken possession of it without purchase; and the ownership of the soil is in the United States.
		Not only (says the Philadelphia Register), should Utah be refused admission into the Union so long as she maintains this abominable domestic institution; but Congress, under its power to make all needful regulations respecting the territory of the United States, should take measures a crime which dishonors our nation.
		For the industrious inhabitants of Utah must find out before long that by the toil of their own sinews they are maintaining the sumptuous harems of their chiefs.
	www.olivercowdery.com /smithhome/1850s/1850mag2.htm (19207 words)

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