Reality TV series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a number of social media influencers from the Church of Jesus ...

Utah polygamy: The Mormon church has posted a new historical narrative on its website about polygamy. The post comes as a federal judge in Utah last week struck down key parts of the state's ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, "plural marriages" were empowering in complicated ways.

Utah's polygamy is a partial legacy of the Mormon church, which in the 1840s fled to the state from Illinois while it still practiced multiple marriages.

Utah's attorney general chose not to prosecute the man, a charismatic preacher who has claimed to be the reincarnated Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, because the woman was 20 years old and deemed a ...

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 ...

Mormons imprisoned for polygamy, 1886. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah ...

Utah became a state in 1896. Polygamy isn't an issue for modern-day Mormons, said church spokesman Michael Otterson, adding that members understand why polygamy is no longer practiced.

Beyond some major changes to Utah’s liquor laws, another big bill signed on Tuesday was House Bill 99, which effectively “re-criminalizes” polygamy in Utah. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike ...

Waddoups also concluded that Utah’s law infringed on personal religious rights. That’s not because fundamentalist Mormons have a special right to multiple unofficial marriages but because the ...

In February 1870, Utah women became the first in the country to vote under an equal suffrage law. The triumphant version of this history celebrates the state’s early dedication to equality for ...