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.

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 Polygamy Ban Reversal ‘Bad News’ For LDS Church: Mormon Scholar. ... Secondly, a Pew study cited in the article shows that 86% of Mormons consider polygamy to be morally wrong.

But Utah's attorney general, pro-polygamy activists and other experts estimate there are an estimated 40,000 people living in polygamous families or communities like this one across the western U ...

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 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 ...

Utah has enacted tough penalties for polygamy in recent years, in a bid to move past the state's complicated history with the practice. But a state senator now wants to reverse the crackdown and ...

So when a judge struck down part of Utah’s anti-polygamy law ... the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups makes it clear that neither fundamentalist Mormons nor anyone else has an ...

In 1953, Arizona broke up a 385-person polygamous enclave that straddled its border with Utah, arresting all the men and placing the children with foster families. A judge eventually ruled the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A Utah playwright wants to change the conversation about polygamy and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church member Taylor Vaughn explains that he wrote ...

Mormon Temple, commemorating statehood, 1896. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Mormon settlers began a westward exodus, escaping persecution, in ...