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Mormon pioneers brought polygamy to Utah in the 1840s, but 50 years later the church renounced the practice to win statehood for the territory. Utah's Constitution specifically outlaws plural ...

there have been constant questions about the real pervasiveness and peril of polygamy here in Utah. Mainstream Mormons in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with 12 million members ...

Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

Utah had no fault divorce from the beginning ... GROSS: So how did polygamy officially end in the Mormon faith? ULRICH: Polygamy officially ended in 1890, after the Supreme Court had ruled ...

Mormon pioneers brought polygamy to Utah in the 1840s, but 50 years later the church renounced the practice to win statehood for the territory. Utah's Constitution specifically outlaws plural ...

PROVO, Utah (CNN) -- A jury in the U.S. state of Utah has found an avowed polygamist guilty on four counts of bigamy. Tom Green, 52, a self-professed "fundamentalist" Mormon who lives with his ...

The decision enabled Utah to become a state, but it also alienated the more hardcore Mormons, who regarded polygamy as an integral part of their religion. So they broke away from the main church ...

A US federal judge has struck down a key part of Utah’s law banning polygamy – providing welcome relief to one practising Mormon family. Joe Darger, who described himself as an “independent ...

Instead, suffrage fit the “progressive sentiment among the Mormons at the time," according ... Association distanced themselves from polygamy. Utah women weren’t marching or drafting petitions ...

In the polygamist communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado ... of newcomers to St. George, Mormon or not, have also diluted the community's opposition to polygamy in ways that could potentially ...

Portrait of Mormon polygamists in prison, at the Utah Penitentiary, circa 1889. Photo by Charles Roscoe Savage/Harold B. Lee Library/Creative Commons Jana Riess ...