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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 ...

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 ...

That's true whether Utah allows gay marriage ... Secondly, a Pew study cited in the article shows that 86% of Mormons consider polygamy to be morally wrong. That’s even higher than the ...

Some Utah Mormons who still wanted to engage in polygamy escaped to the remote border town of Short Creek to evade law enforcement. There, they have created a community of an estimated 7,700 ...

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 ...

There are an estimated 38,000 fundamentalist Mormons who practice or believe in polygamy, most living in Utah and other Western states, said Wilde, who was a plural wife for 33 years until her ...

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 ...

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 ...