Polygamy is against the law in Denmark, and the country&aposs Ministry of Immigration and Integration does not track information on polygamy.
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Mona Abu Shanab, another Egyptian polygamy advocate, argues that polygamy is a sensible way to assuage male sexual frustration, a common cause of divorce.
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" When I asked Osmaev about polygamy, he replied, "O.
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It's not the monogamy or polygamy — it's the patriarchy.
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In a country where polygamy has been banned for 21945 years, the king seemed to be saying that a kind of polygamy would be a prerogative of the monarch (and nobody else).
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The maximum sentence for polygamy is five years in prison.
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Proponents of polygamy offer two main arguments beyond personal preference.
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VICE: Hey Azad, you're the proud owner of the polygamy.
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A shrinking number still practice polygamy, but families are large.
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Although polygamy is prohibited in Mozambique there is no punishment.
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American Mormons first moved to Mexico to avoid polygamy crackdowns
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Why doesn't it condemn patriarchal polygamy as loudly as possible?
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He also suggested the decision could spur polygamy or bestiality.
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One of the victim's relatives said some members practice polygamy.
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The problem with patriarchal polygamy and monogamy is the same.
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United States (1878), in which a Mormon was prosecuted for polygamy.
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She argued that polygamy is a good option for independent women.
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In the West polygamy is too rare to be socially destabilising.
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Some facts: 58 countries — most of them majority-Muslim — allow polygamy.
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How are you finding that the number of signups to polygamy.
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Ethicists debated polygamy, usury, conflict resolution and the morality of smoking.
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Branding all polygamists as felons has facilitated abuse, not eliminated polygamy.
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Polygamy is illegal in both the United States and in Mexico.
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Blackmore did not dispute practicing polygamy, proudly linking it to his faith.
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Although polygamy is practiced in various cultures, humans still tend toward monogamy.
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In this community, present-day polygamy is alive, but not so well.
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Nevertheless, some American campaigners argue that parallelised polygamy should be made legal.
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When polygamy creates a shortage of brides, it massively inflates this brideprice.
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Do the fundamentalists feel like they're being attacked because they practice polygamy?
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The family has a religious belief in polygamy, according to court papers.
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The economic problems are compounded in Niger because polygamy is so common.
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But Rhode also cites evidence of practical problems with formally legalizing polygamy.
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He has four wives and 12 children, despite Israeli laws outlawing polygamy.
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I said polygamy wasn't legal in the UK, but gay marriage is.
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The site gained so much traction that Chaiwala followed it up with Polygamy.
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With social media, polygamy has become more common, which isn't a bad thing.
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" This did not surprise Kankunda, who says polygamy is "part of African culture.
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"I was 266 when I came out of the polygamy closet," he says.
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Those views included an embrace of polygamy, which the church banned in 1890.
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The Utah law prohibits not only polygamy but also cohabitation by married people.
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He could have married both women — the Targaryens had a history of polygamy.
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Blackmore and Oler are the first Canadians to be found guilty of polygamy since 1906, the CBC reports, and their convictions were at the center of a years-long legal debate in the country about the constitutionality of outlawing polygamy.
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PIOTR ZIENTARAAssociate professor of economicsUniversity of Gdansk You pointed to the high incidence of polygamy, and specifically polygyny, in which one husband has multiple wives, for being in part responsible for South Sudan's civil war ("The perils of polygamy", December 23rd).
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The maximum sentence for polygamy under the Criminal Code is five years in prison.
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A legal landscape that prohibits polygamy in many countries isn't an obstacle for SecondWife.
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FEW South Sudanese see a link between their country's horrific civil war and polygamy.
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Globally, polygamy is in retreat, but in some pockets support for it is rising.
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Over their objections, the ruling Democratic Union Party has banned forced marriages and polygamy.
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The Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 but some breakaway enclaves still practise it.
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Negan has multiple wives, who aren't tied to their polygamy-loving husband for love.
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We also examine a collection of works on polygamy and the future of marriage.
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Mr. Kadyrov also supports polygamy in Chechnya, even though it is illegal in Russia.
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She fought for women's education, and opposed polygamy and requiring women to wear hijabs.
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Alamo believed God authorized polygamy and girls were fit for marriage at a young age.
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Because polygamy is illegal in most rich countries, many Westerners underestimate how common it is.
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Back in the days of sanctioned polygamy, Rachel and Leah are sisters married to Jacob.
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Polygamy is permitted, and the legal age of marriage for women is set at 85033.
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The Self-Administration has set the legal age for marriage at 18 and outlawed polygamy.
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In new Muslim women's congresses, socialist feminists spoke out against polygamy and debated the hijab.
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Considering the state's history with polygamy, it's not surprising people would be curious about it.
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In addition, some of these areas banned child marriage, bride abduction, polygamy and domestic violence.
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To his credit, Barash does not argue that because polygamy is natural it is desirable.
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Its code of personal status, adopted in 1956, allows divorce and outlaws polygamy, for example.
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Yejide told Akin when the couple first got married that she wasn't interested in polygamy.
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Thousands of others in North America, who are often called fundamentalist Mormons, practice polygamy, Mason said.
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In northern Nigeria, where polygamy is rife, Boko Haram still arranges cheap marriages for its recruits.
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Advocates claim that polygamy promotes social harmony by giving lusty husbands a legitimate alternative to infidelity.
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Polygamy, the practice of marrying more than one person, is a crime in all 50 states.
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He banned the headscarf from public institutions, outlawed polygamy and gave women the right to divorce.
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But it wasn't until 2009 that Canadian authorities finally charged Winston and Jim Oler with polygamy.
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So, polygamy might not be acceptable for the general public's consumption unless it's on Sister Wives.
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"Winston is charged with polygamy, and there are three others charged with trafficking children," she told VICE.
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"Some women find polygamy attractive too because they don't want to be full-time wives," Chaiwala claimed.
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It's practice is an early teaching of the Mormon church, who preached polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
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The sect is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, which disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago.
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Winston has not been charged with trafficking, and his polygamy charge still hasn't been heard in court.
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He and his former brother-in-law face up to 5 years in prison on polygamy charges.
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What they want instead is a well-defined law that criminalizes polygamy, unilateral divorce and child marriage.
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Groups first began migrating to the country because of a crackdown on polygamy in the United States.
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Polygamy, explored in the series when Mareme's lover eventually takes her as a second wife, is common.
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The Bedouin birthrate, among the highest in the world, has been increased by the practice of polygamy.
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But it remains a magnet for those who dislike Muslims, railing against polygamy and crimes committed by immigrants.
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But there are also blistering tales of child marriage, polygamy and philandering; subversive stuff for a conservative region.
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Jeffs led the FLDS church, which had splintered from mainstream Mormonism in order to continue to practice polygamy.
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The case: Winston Blackmore is part of a community called "Bountiful," an offshoot of Mormonism that allows polygamy.
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But this week on Escaping Polygamy: After The Escape, she reveals that what followed proved even more difficult.
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The early Mormon settlers in Mexico fled the threat of arrest in the United States for practicing polygamy.
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To start, they are not the same thing as polygamy (that's when you have more than one spouse).
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The stories also say polygamy is being practiced more widely by Muslims who are immigrating to the country.
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While the Mormon church officially banned polygamy in 1890, it persisted in some communities, especially those in Mexico.
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Although polygamy was the Macedonian norm, either Lysimachos' new bride or Amastris must have objected to the situation.
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Huckabee, a two-time Republican presidential candidate, compared legalizing same-sex marriage to incest and polygamy in 2010.
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A&E's Escaping Polygamy followed a group of women looking to distance themselves from a polygamist sect in Utah.
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Women in the Kuria tribe, a deeply patriarchal community, also face customs like female genital mutilation (FGM) and polygamy.
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In Canada, the practice is widely rejected: a 2005 survey showed only 4 percent of Canadians approved of polygamy.
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Rania Hashem, a pro-polygamy campaigner in Egypt, claims that there is a shortage of men in her country.
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MENTION polygamy in Canada and what might come to mind is Bountiful, a suitably named town in British Columbia.
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Wherever polygamy is widely practised (in South Sudan, perhaps 40% of marriages involve multiple wives) turmoil tends to follow.
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We gave a very extreme domain something in the range of £44,000 [$58,000] for that domain, but today polygamy.
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He prohibited polygamy, expanded women's rights to divorce and raised the age at which girls could marry to 28500.
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He was also outspoken against patriarchy and criticized polygamy as a practice that increases the risk of spreading HIV.
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But, per reality TV obligations and polygamy laws in America, she could only "do life" with one of them.
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Each wife can visit once a month, resulting in a polygamy benefit for men with more than one spouse.
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But we're still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery or female genital mutilation.
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In this work of historical fiction, Ebershoff takes a critical look at polygamy through his side-by-side narratives.
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Polygamy is illegal in India, and these "water wives" - or 'paaniwaali bai' in the local language - have few rights.
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Nothing." Carlson noted he believed Jeffs' religious practices were "disgusting" and "immoral" but made a libertarian's argument for polygamy: "If you're, like, for the government butting out of the bedroom and for gay marriage, and for the right of strip clubs to operate unimpeded by governments — how exactly can you be against polygamy?
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The supertease captures the family's decision to return to Utah for the first time since 2012, rallying to legalize polygamy.
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This is because polygamy nearly always means that rich men take multiple wives, and the poorest are condemned to bachelorhood.
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Brandon J. Blackmore is the brother of Bountiful leader Winston Blackmore, who has 145 children and is charged with polygamy.
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The scope for feuds is increased by the complexity of family structures, thanks to high fertility rates and occasional polygamy.
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Both Winston Blackmore and Jim Oler, the leader of the Warrenites in Bountiful, are named in the 21.8 polygamy indictment.
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Related: "Hyper-Opera" Programs the Drama of Performance Online Karen O in Stop the Virgens The Polygamy Opera Hits Vancouver
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Read more:More than a hundred years ago, Mormons — including Mitt Romney's family — fled to Mexico so they could practice polygamy.
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Polygamy is legal in Iran, but many hard-liners criticized Mr. Najafi for marrying Ms. Ostad, three decades his junior.
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Some, seeking to preserve abandoned institutions such as "plural marriage" (polygamy) and communal ownership, formed communities practising "Old-Fashioned Mormonism".
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According to a 2011 count from Stop Polygamy in Canada, an anti-polygamy nonprofit based in Alberta, Canada, at least 50 Canadian girls between the ages of 12 to 17 were married to FLDS men in the United States between 1990 and 2006, when Jeffs was arrested in the US on sex-crimes charges.
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The case ruled that bigamy was unconstitutional and is largely seen as the precedent for outlawing polygamy in the Mormon church.
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Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada explicitly prohibits polygamy, and offenders could face up to five years in prison.
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The family belongs to the Apostolic United Brethren Church, which views polygamy as "a core religious practice," according to court documents.
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And when you say you're "cool" with a guy marrying one woman, are you saying polygamy is on the table now?
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She is anti-abortion, casts a sceptical eye on gene-editing techniques, and has compared gay marriage to polygamy and incest.
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He is a member of FLDS, a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism with members who believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
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Her petition, which is supported by the BMMA, demands a ban on the practices of instant talaq, polygamy, and nikah halala.
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Why polygamy breeds civil war | March 20163 The 20 most fragile states in the world are all somewhat or very polygamous.
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After the fight over polygamy, Mormon leaders reversed their approach, and have since worked determinedly to build an unobjectionable, mainstream church.
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They can add more partners to their marriage, and pursue polygamy rather than monogamy in hopes of increasing their reproductive probabilities.
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The Browns belong to the Apostolic United Brethren Church, which views polygamy as "a core religious practice," according to court documents.
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She was not so much bothered that there were "three of us" in the marriage, polygamy being common enough in Kenya.
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The title of noble consort had not been used since Thailand abolished absolute monarchy and polygamy more than eight decades ago.
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Zanzibar is 98 percent Muslim; polygamy is common and extramarital sex is taboo, so unplanned pregnancies are rare, Dr. Keogh said.
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When the federal government declined to tolerate either that or the practice of polygamy, Church leaders found themselves in a bind.
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Mormons first moved to northern Mexico in the late 1800s, when there was a crackdown on polygamy in the United States.
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In OUT OF EDEN: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy (Oxford University, $29.95), the evolutionary psychologist David P. Barash tackles this issue.
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In the mid-1840s, he nonetheless "sealed" himself to two teenage girls, the beginning of a decades-long adventure in polygamy.
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Some La Mora families practiced polygamy, but most considered themselves independent Mormons, according to Cristina Rosetti, a scholar of Mormon fundamentalism.
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For example, polyamory is still commonly mistaken for polygamy, or the religious (and arguably misogynistic) practice of men marrying multiple women.
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This is how we learn Alice has no problem with polygamy — she alreay knows Edgar is married to a 26-year-old.
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According to KTSU, the office of Utah's attorney general has said it will prosecute polygamy cases only if they involve other crimes.
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Partly as a result, and also because women's power in the Sahel is undermined by widespread polygamy, people still desire many children.
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When it comes to legalizing polygamy (marriage to more than one person), 31% of LGBTQ people support it, while 463% are opposed.
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The air that flushes through the little transparent apartments housing one male and two females in rigidly controlled polygamy is impeccably filtered.
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An Arizona highway patrolman talks to young Mormon men during the Short Creek Polygamy Raid in Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953.
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Those charges were delayed by a Charter challenge that sought to determine whether or not polygamy could be protected under religious freedom.
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I honestly wasn't sure that the showrunners would even explore Negan's forced, abusive polygamy because it was just so abhorrent to me.
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The FLDS split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1930s after the Mormon establishment rejected polygamy.
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But after Susan died in 1982, Alamo's behavior turned more deviant as he extolled the righteousness of polygamy and marrying young girls.
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When the LeBaróns first arrived in Mexico, they practiced polygamy, but that has now largely faded from the community, the family says.
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More than 90 percent of Muslim women surveyed by BMMA last year said they wanted an end to polygamy and triple talaq.
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Polygamy is not becoming a common practice in Denmark due to an influx of Muslim immigrants, as some online outlets have reported.
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Those charges stemmed from the FLDS's split from the mainstream Mormon church more than 70 years ago over the issue of polygamy.
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LeBaron has deep roots in Mexico, including a dark past that involves a cult-like murder spree, drug cartel abductions, and polygamy.
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The nuclear family is a repressive disaster, but monogamy and polygamy each have thousands of tiny, fast anxieties scurrying under their surfaces.
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This empathetic account of the women of early Mormonism focusses on the doctrine of polygamy, first articulated by Joseph Smith in 1843.
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Generally, the community practices a fundamentalist version of Mormonism, and one of the victim's family members told CNN that some practice polygamy.
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" Immanuel's application for faculty contains similar language, prohibiting any prospective employee from "homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy," or having a "transgender identity.
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"Bountiful", which was founded in 1946, has its roots in offshoots from the American Mormon church whose mainstream leadership eschewed polygamy in 1890.
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Brideprice societies where wealth is unevenly distributed lend themselves to polygamy—which in turn inflates the price of brides, often to ruinous heights.
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The Muslim who overcomes sheds any Muslim practices that challenge polite liberal sensibilities, like face veils and polygamy, or calling out white supremacy.
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But after his wife died in 1982, Alamo's behavior grew deviant — and he began preaching the purported righteousness of polygamy and underage brides.
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The Conservatives said at the time the measure was aimed at protecting women and children from forced marriages, polygamy or female genital mutilation.
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This exhibition presents a mixture of images from several of those series, including Brothels of Nevada, Funeral Homes South USA, and Polygamy/FLDS.
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I want to prove that society already practices polygamy—2000 percent of society—except they do it in a really demeaning, immoral way.
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He dismisses those who criticize polygamy as anachronistic, saying it is better than adultery or one-night stands facilitated by apps like Tinder.
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Polygamy is legal in all states throughout Malaysia, but a groom needs to obtain consent of earlier wives before taking on another wife.
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Polygamy and child marriage are also on the rise here, as democracy has allowed personal freedoms repressed during the Suharto era to prosper.
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In 2004, a new family code guaranteed women more rights in marriage and divorce, raising the minimum age for marriage and restricting polygamy.
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Polygamy has been practiced in Utah by certain religious groups since before it became a state and continues to persist to this day.
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It lowered the marriage age to nine for girls and fourteen for boys; it legalized polygamy and raised the price of birth control.
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Mormons who accepted polygamy as part of their faith began moving to Mexico and Canada to keep their families together, according to experts.
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The women of Umoja are all of the Samburu culture, an extremely patriarchal society that practices female genital mutilation and believes in polygamy.
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Winston Blackmore and James Oler were each found guilty in British Columbia last July of one count of polygamy, according to the Associated Press.
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Henderson's law would make polygamy between consenting adults an infraction — a level below many traffic offenses that carries no jail time, the Tribune reported.
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That is not for a lack of children: most women will have at least eight and, since polygamy is widespread, some fathers have more.
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"Can a man excuse his [illegal] practices ... because of his religious belief?" the Supreme Court demanded in its seminal 1878 polygamy case, Reynolds v.
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In fact, the Woman's Law passed by the Self-Administration is similar to Turkey's own Civil Code, which also outlaws child marriage and polygamy.
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A survey by BMMA last year showed more than 90 percent of Muslim women want to end the "triple talaq" divorce tradition and polygamy.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has excommunicated many of the Mormon communities in Mexico due to their stance on polygamy.
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Matiko and Samir belong to the Kuria tribe, a deeply traditional community that affirms harsh patriarchal customs like female genital mutilation (FGM) and polygamy.
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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln pardoned former Confederate soldiers, while in 1893 Benjamin Harrison pardoned members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) for polygamy.
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Female poverty is worsened by violence and empowerment is hindered by traditional practices such as polygamy, child marriage and female genital mutilation, says UN Women.
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The province's former attorney general, Wally Oppal, spent years looking for strategies to prosecute, arguing that polygamy was demeaning to women and damaging to minors.
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Ebershoff's book sets out to give a history and critique of polygamy, shedding light on the dynamics it creates and how the practice has evolved.
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Ebershoff's book sets out to give a history and critique of polygamy, shedding light on the dynamics it creates and how the practice has evolved.
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"People are scared to receive services," Enoch Foster, who has two wives (and whose father was arrested in the 1970s for practicing polygamy), told ABC4.
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Instead, it is the result of the post-polygamy Church's sustained efforts to refurbish its public face by repeatedly presenting its members as exemplary citizens.
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She had previously built resentments among some of them by speaking up against "the atrocities" of her parents' religion, such as polygamy and underage marriage.
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When you're looking to open up your relationship to new experiences, the entry point is the most difficult: going from monogamy to polygamy is tough.
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Sebastion tells friends that Jeremy is a roommate or a friend of his parents, he said, because people often see poly as swinging or polygamy.
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Polyandry, the female-focused version of polygamy, is technically illegal in the United States; thus, those who practice it do so without literally getting married.
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She's gone on to write Vogue's sex column and serve as VICE's resident sexpert, exploring kinks, polygamy, bondage, and beyond on her very own show, SLUTEVER.
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CRANBOOK, British Columbia – A special prosecutor is recommending jail time for two leaders of a religious sect in British Columbia who were found guilty of polygamy.
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By increasing the bride price, polygamy tends to raise the age at which young men get married; it takes a long time to save enough money.
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Though this case is not directly about polygamy, the widespread practice of plural marriage among the FLDS did come up in Jeffs' most recent detention hearing.
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They have also passed progressive legislation on women's rights, bringing their part of Northeast Syria into the community of nations that prohibits polygamy and child marriage.
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Kym Wilson's Presbyterian family said they were baffled by her apostasy in favor of an unorthodox religious group that preaches prohibition, polygamy and a vegetarian diet.
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" The rest is history, of course, except now there's a movement to legalize polygamy, which Politico said last year was "the next horizon of social liberalism.
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One of the more nuanced pieces, by the philosopher Peter de Marneffe, articulates a liberal position on polygamy that opposes its legalization but also its criminalization.
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Aside from questioning the legal status of polygamy, you might also wonder about its biological status — whether it is a "natural" state of affairs for humans.
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François, a bored literature professor, is offered an irresistible deal: a position at a prestigious university and the chance to partake of the joys of polygamy.
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Utah's state Senate on Tuesday unanimously voted to decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults and treat it instead as a simple infraction akin to a parking violation.
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Viewers followed the journey, but one of the show's newer additions, Ariel, is set to reveal something major on this week's special, Escaping Polygamy: After the Escape.
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Just before Thanksgiving, Mariah told her family — including her father Kody, biological mother Meri, and her mothers through polygamy, Janelle, Christine and Robyn — that she was gay.
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The Charter does allow for "reasonable limits" on religious freedom when they are "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society," as critics of polygamy have noted.
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Utah's current polygamy law currently states that married people cannot live with an extra spouse or claim to have a second "spiritual spouse," the Associated Press reports.
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Brown told The Salt Late Tribune on Friday that keeping polygamy a crime makes polygamous families afraid to call ambulances or social services that can help them.
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Hundreds of individuals gathered in the Utah Capitol Monday either in support or opposition of House Bill 281, which would "recriminalize" the practice of polygamy in Utah.
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Most in the United States would agree that religious communities should be prohibited from practicing female genital mutilation or polygamy, both of which are in fact illegal.
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Converts, however, were often targeted as heretics for practicing polygamy, believing in scriptures exclusive to Mormonism and saying that their faith was the true restoration of Christianity.
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But for polygamy to work, wives must buy into the practice and the husband should have enough income to look after all of them and their children.
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Hunt pointed out that the data includes whether each user is a convert or not, their employment, living and marital status, and whether they would consider polygamy.
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A short fiction film shot by Supa Modo director Likarion Wainaina is in post-production, as she develops a short documentary about Islamic polygamy and a fiction feature.
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SALT LAKE CITY – A third man has been charged with child sexual abuse in connection with a Utah doomsday group that believed in polygamy and took child brides.
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Shaffer told deputies he had been the prophet of the church — which believes in doomsday prophecies and practices polygamy — but had recently passed down the title to Coltharp.
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His republic follows its own hyper-traditional religious and social codes, largely beyond the reach of Russian law; Mr Kadyrov has voiced support for polygamy and honour killings.
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Martha Bailey, a specialist in family law at Queen's University in Kingston, says polygamy sometimes comes up as an issue when multiple wives seek shares in an inheritance.
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Susan Drummond, a legal anthropologist, argued in 2009 that the ban on polygamy should be dropped because Canada has other laws and regulations to protect women and minors.
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The LGBTQ-themed displays were similar to those that they put up for Saint Patrick&aposs Day, polygamy, Black History Month and most recently Pioneer Day, they said.
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Although the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned polygamy more than 100 years ago, many fundamentalist splinter groups still practice plural marriage across Utah, where it's illegal but not criminalized.
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If you were to stop anyone on the street today and talk about polygamy, they would be in shock and think it was something horrendous, something women hate.
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" But Damore's lawsuit is short on evidence of discrimination and long on nitpicks about the company "catering to employees with alternative lifestyles, including furries, polygamy, transgenderism, and plurality.
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The oldest communities date from the late 1800s, when upheaval over polygamy in the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints led to their founding.
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Describing Colonia LeBaron and La Mora as "off-branch" Mormon communities, Aurora LeBaron said there were still some people in LeBaron who believed in polygamy, but increasingly few.
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The sect should not be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which renounced the practice of polygamy at the turn of the century.
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Women here have long had the right to divorce and gain custody of their children, and polygamy was abolished the year after the country became independent in 1956.
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"Offshoot groups such as the LeBaron family began to form in Mexico in the early 1900s" after disagreeing with the central Mormon church over polygamy, per the Post.
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Evolutionarily speaking, polygamy was the "default setting for human intimacy," and polygyny — an arrangement in which a man mates with a harem of wives — remains our biological inclination.
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In addition, the Kurdish authorities outlawed forced marriages and female circumcision, restricted polygamy, and reformed the inheritance law in order to ensure that women receive a fair share.
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Shaffer told deputies he had been the prophet of the church — which allegedly believes in doomsday prophecies and practices polygamy — but had recently passed down the title to Coltharp.
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There is no liberal democratic state where polygamy is legal, but the practice is recognised, either formally or de facto, in around 60 countries round the world, mostly Muslim.
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But that very soon dissipated into sectarian attacks—in Libya the Transitional Government replaced Gaddafi and one of its first demands was an end to the ban on polygamy.
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More than 24 Muslim women's rights groups, who wrote to Modi demanding reforms to Muslim laws on divorce and polygamy, have also filed a petition in the Supreme Court.
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I don't write this as a defense of LDS polygamy, much less to challenge Clinton's understanding of the First Amendment or take her view of Mormon history to task.
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Mr. Chaiwala speaks of his sites with an evangelist's fervor, hoping to spread the idea that polygamy offers a pro-family antidote to promiscuity, prostitution, divorce and broken homes.
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More than 90 percent of Muslim women surveyed in 2015 by Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which campaigns for women's rights, wanted an end to triple talaq and polygamy.
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In a 2013 Gallup poll about morally controversial issues, a mere 14 percent of the public said they accepted polygamy (only adultery and cloning humans had lower approval rates).
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"Read the full article at The Washington Post "Read more:More than a hundred years ago, Mormons — including Mitt Romney&aposs family — fled to Mexico so they could practice polygamy.
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Huge decisions have been made based on Mormon presidents' prophecies, according to church leaders, including ending the practice of polygamy and opening the priesthood to men of African descent.
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These immigrants were also viewed as poor and uneducated recruits into Mormon polygamy (a practice the Church banned in 1890), something depicted in the 1882 cartoon below by Thomas Nast.
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From early on, the organization seemed to prime its members for polygamy, but this turned out to be a springboard for Raniere's more controversial views about gender roles and incest.
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Ellison and his flock—he'd recruited young psychic casualties of the 1970s, damaged people trying to start over—were beginning to fracture over the polygamy, and the danger was real.
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Both have been charged with polygamy under legislation which has existed for more than a century but has proved virtually impossible to apply because of countervailing considerations about religious freedom.
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But a new paper studying polygamy in shorebirds finds the opposite: more partners actually seems to decrease the rate at which those populations began to diverge and become different species.
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Michael Noel (R) has claimed that his original bill would only turn polygamy into a misdemeanor, but an amendment on the house floor upgraded it to a third-degree felony.
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The law, which reiterated that polygamy is a crime, as are "barbaric practices" such as genital mutilation and the forced marriage of children, was criticised for having an Islamophobic tone.
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Polygamy is legal for Muslims in three of the top five source countries for immigrants to Canada in 2015 (the Philippines, Iran and Pakistan) and quite common in another (India).
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But she is conservative on social issues, opposing advertising for abortions, and caused controversy in 2015 by saying allowing same-sex marriages could open the door to incest and polygamy.
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The victims were all part of a community of breakaway Mormon sects who arrived in Mexico from the 1880s onwards to escape a clampdown on polygamy in the United States.
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Men are harder to reach in places like Gaza, where the risk of HIV is fueled by widespread polygamy and migration back and forth to neighboring South Africa for work.
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"It isn't a matter of acceptance by the population," he said, arguing the other changes such as a ban on polygamy in 1956 had been carried out without popular support.
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In 2014, at the same time charges were filed against Millie's parents, Canadian authorities also charged two former FLDS bishops from British Columbia, Winston Blackmore and Jim Oler, with polygamy.
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Watch a VICE Documentary: Life After Polygamy: The Daughters and Wives of a Polygamist Cult Reclaim Their Hometown Hey there, Delilah, considering your condition, what's it been like studying nutrition?
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There were also mandatory questionnaires for migrants, which asked things like whether they've ever been an anarchist, involved in polygamy, or supported the violent overthrow of a government, says Lombardo.
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In the United States, polygamy is technically a form of adultery, since it involves sexual relations between a married person and someone who is not his or her legal spouse.
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The FLDS is a religious sect that broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, over the practice of polygamy.
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"Wife inheritance and polygamy are culturally accepted practices and the society is patriarchal, hence women have no say and are less empowered," the Kenyan government's National Aids Control Council says.
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The Browns fled Utah and in 2011 filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah alleging that its strict criminal polygamy law infringed on their rights to religious freedom and privacy.
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Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the mainstream church abandoned the practice in 1890 and now prohibits it.
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Teachers must not engage in such behaviors as "homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female," its job application states.
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But according to Zelpha Chatwin, who says she is Winston's eighth wife, an RCMP investigator visited Bountiful as far back as 213, asking general questions about polygamy and the community there.
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It is an offshoot of the Salt Lake City-based mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which renounced polygamy in 1890 and has no affiliation with the FLDS.
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While polygamy (the practice of of taking multiple husbands or wives, but commonly wives) is legal in some countries for mainly religious reasons, polyamorous families do not enjoy similar legal protections.
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A person born into the faith, he was seeking answers about the its history, naming past issues of "polygamy, child abuse, stoning disobedient children, pillage, plunder, sexism, racism" in the letter.
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This has happened in a society that traditionally was strongly patriarchal, where polygamy was common, honor killings accepted and girls not allowed to sit at the same table as their fathers.
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The United States denies nearly 280 million visa applications a year for a variety of reasons, including for practicing polygamy, abducting children or simply not qualifying for the visa in question.
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Two former leaders of a fundamentalist religious sect in Canada were sentenced this week to house arrest and probation following their nearly unprecedented convictions on polygamy charges, according to multiple news outlets.
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At the same time, Cox's past support for a federal amendment to ban same-sex marriage and equating gay rights to allowing polygamy and bestiality has been brought up during the campaign.
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CRANBROOK, British Columbia – A British Colombia Supreme Court judge imposed conditional sentences on two men who belong to a breakaway Mormon sect after convicting them of polygamy Tuesday, sparing them jail time.
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"When referring to people or organizations that practice polygamy, it should be stated that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not affiliated with polygamous groups," the guide states.
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In 2000, a bogus telephone poll suggested John McCain had fathered a black child out of wedlock, and in 2007 voters received a Christmas card suggesting Mitt Romney, a Mormon, supported polygamy.
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It's disguised as a literary collective (Casey's having an affair with an English teacher), but features cult hallmarks like farm animals, polygamy and a "cash crop" -- which turns out to be flowers.
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SALT LAKE CITY – A self-styled prophet who helped lead a Utah doomsday cult that believed in polygamy pleaded guilty to sodomy and child bigamy charges in a central Utah courtroom Wednesday.
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Initially, the family's patriarch was part of a wave of religious rebels who headed south to practice polygamy, once it was banned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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It was there that U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona was accused in 2000 of fathering an illegitimate African-American child, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in 2008 of supporting polygamy.
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Now that we've gotten to know Jamie over the 20 years they've been apart, it makes sense that we would also get to see other characters interacting with him about his accidental polygamy.
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That is one reason why a polygamy trial which recently opened in the Canadian province of British Columbia has attracted attention throughout the country and among law-and-religion pundits across the world.
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The towns were accused of doing the bidding of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, which disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago.
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Seyfried and Paxton both starred on the HBO polygamy drama Big Love during the late 2000s, with the Mean Girls star taking on the role of his character Bill Henrickson's teenage daughter Sarah.
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Hatch said the LeBarons and the Langfords were intermarried and that some still believed in polygamy, contrasting them with Mexico's estimated 1.5 million mainstream Mormons, the religion's biggest concentration outside the United States.
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Ivory Tower It's hard to say how many people in the United States practice polygamy — estimates vary widely, from 20,000 to half a million — but it's clear most of their fellow Americans disapprove.
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He then noted that polygamy is often accepted in Eritrea, and he believes it even serves a purpose — evening out the noticeable gender imbalance that was a hangover of the war for independence.
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There, they discussed what to do, ultimately deciding to call a woman named Kristyn Decker, who left the FLDS at 50 and now assists other young women fleeing polygamy through the Sound Choices Coalition.
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Now BuzzFeed News has confirmed that two decades before Sheikh arrived in Texas, he was dismissed from a mosque in Richmond, Virginia, in the midst of a polygamy scandal involving a young woman convert.
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But others dismissed it as "lip service" and urged Muslim leaders in the region to focus instead on concrete changes such as ending the practice of polygamy and ensuring equal inheritance rights for women.
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WATCH: Cult Leaders & Child Brides: Breaking Down 'People Magazine Investigates: Cults' After Susan died in 1982, Alamo's behavior took a dark twist as he began extolling the purported righteousness of polygamy and underage brides.
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In Houellebecq's fictional world, the disillusionment resulting from Hollande's re-election leads to the rise of a Muslim candidate who defeats Marine Le Pen in 2022 and introduces Sharia law and polygamy in France.
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He and James Oler, a fellow adherent of a fundamentalist splinter sect of the Mormon church, practised "plural marriage" for decades until a court found them guilty in July of the crime of polygamy.
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Mohammad Khani, an imam who oversees weddings and divorces at the Imam Ali Mosque in Copenhagen, one of the largest mosques in the city, says polygamy in Denmark&aposs Muslim community is almost nonexistent.
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"He is the king stud of Canada," said Nancy Mereska, founder of Stop Polygamy in Canada, which has been openly critical of the Canadian government's failure to crack down on the polygamists in Bountiful.
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The claim surprised some Manobo leaders, who said polygamy was an outdated system, as well as his wife, Emelita Alvarez, who said she was previously unaware of his conversion from Catholicism to Manobo beliefs.
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"It used to be you'd say Mormon, and the first things people would say would be polygamy or racists," he said as he prepared to lead a Boy Scout camping trip in Moab, Utah.
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Deidre Henderson, the bill's lead sponsor, called Utah's current law unenforceable, saying that it doesn't prevent people from engaging in polygamy but instead isolates polygamous communities and prevents from potential victims from reporting abuse.
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Under current statutes, polygamy - typically involving a man who cohabitates with and purports to marry more than one wife - is classified as a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
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Ebershoff weaves a novel based on the life of Ann Eliza Young, one of the wives of Mormon leader Brigham Young, who escapes her oppressive husband and embarks on a mission to end polygamy.
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Having introduced a secular constitution and a Western-style civil and criminal legal code, Atatürk shut down the dervish lodges and religious schools, abolished polygamy, and introduced civil marriage and a national beauty contest.
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Mormon families migrate south Polygamy was common among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS Church, which was established in the US in the 1800s.
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State law prohibits polygamy in Utah today, but prosecutors have long had a policy of not enforcing it against consenting adults unless there is another crime involved such as child abuse, domestic violence or fraud.
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According to Gallup, a pollster, the proportion of Americans who consider polygamy to be morally acceptable rose from 5% in 2006 to 17% last year, among the most dramatic jumps in the subjects it tracks.
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MANTI, Utah – A self-styled prophet who helped lead a Utah doomsday cult that believed in polygamy and promoted child marriage remained defiant Wednesday as he was sent to prison for at least 25 years.
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Azad Chaiwala, a 0003-year-old entrepreneur, reckons polygamy is the way to rid ourselves of the "immoral relationships" that he sees as responsible for 2000 percent of marriages in the UK ending in divorce.
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After she was pushed into an arranged polygamist marriage, Rachel left the church in 2015, something she detailed in her memoir, Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult and My Father, Warren Jeffs.
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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Legislation to effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults in Utah overwhelmingly passed the state House of Representatives in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, moving it a step closer to becoming law.
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Before their arrests, Shaffer and Coltharp met in a Facebook discussion group relating to the 1890 decision to abandon polygamy by the mainstream Mormon church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Daniels said.
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In April 2013, a 23-year-old female paralegal sued Ray in federal civil court for sexual harassment, alleging Ray fired her when she refused to discuss pornography and polygamy with him, multiple outlets including NorthJersey.
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Wherever it is widely practised, polygamy (specifically polygyny, the taking of multiple wives) destabilises society, largely because it is a form of inequality which creates an urgent distress in the hearts, and loins, of young men.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Turkish community plans to bring criminal charges against a senior member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for calling Turks "camel drivers" who should return to their "mud huts and polygamy".
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"These camel drivers should go off to where they belong: far, far beyond the Bospurus to their mud huts and polygamy," Poggenburg told party members, calling Turks living in Germany "camel traders" and an "unpatriotic rabble".
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Two are a sop to those who fear an army of Muslim babies: one allows local officials to order Muslim parents to wait up to three years before having another baby, while the other outlaws polygamy.
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Polygamy is a remnant of the early teachings of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially abandoned the practice in 1890 and now excommunicates members found engaged in the practice.
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But soon after that announcement, it emerged that Mr. Mateer — an outspoken proponent of religious liberty — had made a series of incendiary speeches, such as labeling same-sex marriage a forerunner of "disgusting" polygamy and bestiality.
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This portrayal of communicative and, for the most part, healthy polyamory is a big departure from typical portrayals of being poly which typically conflates the practice with polygamy — a far more sexist version of non-monogamy.
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Gathering on the steps of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, the reality stars joined hundreds of others polygamous people and supporters in protest of a bill that would keep polygamy a felony in Utah.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer, who was premier of the western state of Saarland before Merkel nominated her to become CDU general secretary a year ago, opposes gay marriage and has said marriage equality could lead to incest and polygamy.
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Nancy Salzman, who co-founded the group with Keith Raniere, and other leaders began to introduce "the idea of polygamy, but with a soft sell, laying the groundwork," Susan Dones, a NXIVM member at the time, said.
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" But the analogy doesn't hold: With fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, you have men—very often much older, high-ranking men among their religious groups—taking a multiplicity of young wives assigned to them by an all-powerful "prophet.
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Ex-sect members escape polygamy, not pain Jeffs, another brother, Seth, and other conspirators were accused of defrauding the government of more than $12 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- more commonly known as food stamps.
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Employed first in literature as an example of the moral superiority of Western monogamy over Eastern polygamy, the odalisque was transformed into an object of desire in the erotic paintings of the 19th-century Orientalism art movement.
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Tech companies go above and beyond to showcase their tolerance for diversity of all kinds—Damore's suit references Google "catering to employees with alternative lifestyles, including furries, polygamy, transgenderism, and plurality"—but this is all a smokescreen.
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Just this summer a BC court upheld the right to charge Bountiful leader Winston Blackmore with polygamy, and three other polygamists faced trial for child trafficking this month, with a judge's decision expected by February next year.
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The result has been some 200 divorces in the past year, mostly in cases of polygamy and underage marriage, said Widat Hayat an Arab woman and a sociologist who heads the research department at the Women's House.
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The graph of the results is illuminating: While men's lifespans weren't affected by the number of kids they fathered—the highest being 65 children (#polygamy)—women's lifespans drastically decreased after giving birth to more than four children.
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On a talk show to be broadcast later this month, the host asked her why she was opposed to polygamy, saying he had heard about a man who was perfectly fair to all 12 of his wives.
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The state currently treats polygamy as a third-degree felony that carries penalties of up to five years in prison, whereas under the bill, the penalty would be reduced to fines up to $85033 and community service.
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Muslim marriages and divorces, and interfaith ones involving a Muslim, are governed by the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, which also permits a man to commit polygamy without the acquiescence or knowledge of other wives he may have.
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A bill that would effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults in Utah was unanimously endorsed by a state Senate committee this week, sending the legislation to the full chamber for a vote, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported.
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Lynette has started to find her voice as an advocate for women escaping polygamy, and she's studying psychology with the hope that she will one day be able to work in a professional capacity with survivors like herself.
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It recalled colonial times when it was the Arab world��s premier port, with its first refinery; or the Soviet era when it had beach parties, and northern practices like qat-chewing, the veil and polygamy were banned.
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" Mason explained that after 1890 — the year the LDS church officially abandoned polygamy — the faith's leadership has continually made a wager that its "success was going to be found in the center of society, not on the margins.
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The Indian government told the Supreme Court this month polygamy and triple talaq - by which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by saying "talaq" thrice - deny Muslim women "the full enjoyment of fundamental rights under the Constitution".
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Despite growing modernity and awareness of women's rights, polygamy remains legal in most African nations and is prevalent across society, from farmers to senior politicians, such as former South African President Jacob Zuma who has had six wives.
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In 2007, when Romney was running for president, a Pew Center study found that the No. 1 term Americans associated with Mormonism was "polygamy," despite the fact that it has been banned by the LDS Church since 1890.
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Ms. Ayobami, who studied fiction writing with Ms. Adichie and Margaret Atwood, said she worried at first that Nigerian readers might balk at a novel that hinges on culturally touchy subjects like polygamy, infidelity and belief in magic.
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In ADULTERY: Infidelity and the Law (Harvard University, $28.95), Rhode concludes that "perhaps the most plausible solution" to the problem of polygamy is partial legalization: invalidating criminal laws against cohabitation but retaining the prohibition on multiple marriage licenses.
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The victims are descendants of Mormon settlers that came to the region after breaking with the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decades ago over the issue of polygamy, though it's no longer practiced.
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So many different strands fed into "The Handmaid's Tale" — group executions, sumptuary laws, book burnings, the Lebensborn program of the SS and the child-stealing of the Argentine generals, the history of slavery, the history of American polygamy . . .
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As of 2009, polygamy was legal or generally accepted in 33 countries: 25 of them in Africa, including Egypt, Kenya and Mali, and seven in Asia, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to one United Nations report.
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CEDAR CITY, Utah – A self-styled Utah prophet who secretly married young girls because of his beliefs in polygamy and doomsday was sentenced Tuesday to up to life in prison after pleading guilty to child rape and abuse charges.
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Follow Tshepo on Twitter More on VICE: How to Make Polygamy Work An Interview with the Guy Behind a New Dating Site for Conspiracy Theorists People Tell Us the Most Absurd Excuses They've Used to Bail on Shite Dates
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" Mr. Bopp of Indiana recently wrote to delegates to say that the Republican Party has always opposed threats to traditional marriage "beginning with our opposition to the 'twin relics of barbarism' of slavery and polygamy in our 1856 platform.
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In recent years, the church has published essays attemping to clarify its position on a number of difficult controversies, like issues of racism, prejudice against LGBT communities, polygamy and teen marriages condoned in the earliest years of the faith.
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While Chinese regulators censor the display of any homosexual content on television (categorized as inappropriate sexual content, together with incest and polygamy), there is a large online community that fosters greater acceptance for LGBT individuals, especially among the younger generations.
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There are only two other convictions for polygamy in Canadian history, but because those cases took place in 1899 and 1906, Special Prosecutor Peter Wilson told the judge they didn&apost set a precedent in determining sentences for the men.
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Another survey, carried out between 2000 and 2010, showed that in 26 of the 35 countries with data on polygamy, between 10 and 53 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 shared their husband with other wives.
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Mormon theology is informed by an indelible sense of persecution — one that started as the earliest believers attempted to forge a community, then codified in 1890, when LDS leaders reluctantly agreed to ban polygamy in order to secure Utah's statehood.
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Wilson told Justice Sheri Ann Donegan that there are only two other convictions for polygamy in Canadian history, but because those cases took place in 1899 and 1906, they do not help in determining a sentence for Blackmore and Oler.
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Tucked away in the fertile valleys of the Sierra Madre mountains a few hours drive south from the U.S. border, the communities stem from the late 1800s, when upheaval over polygamy in the Utah-based church led to their founding.
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Nestled in the fertile valleys of the Sierra Madre mountains just a few hours drive south from the U.S. border, the oldest communities stem from the late 1800s, when upheaval over polygamy in the Utah-based church led to their founding.
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The petition being considered by the Supreme Court also seeks an end to polygamy and 'halala', which mandates that if a woman wants to go back to her husband after a divorce, she must first consummate her marriage with another man.
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And while some millennials may believe polyamory is the future of love, it's still extensively unaccepted—according to a recent Gallup poll, only 20083 percent of Americans say polygamy is "morally acceptable," and those views are often reflected in film.
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"Polygamy is the biggest contributor to poverty as most men who get into it cannot afford it - and it is the women and children who suffer most," said Teresa Omondi-Adeitan, executive director of the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya.
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A new wave of thematically and stylistically diverse fiction is emerging from the country, as writers there experiment with different genres and explore controversial subjects like violence against women, polygamy and the rise of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
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"Polygamy has hit high rates in Gaza over the few past years, seemingly due to an increase in people's religious inclination, especially after Hamas took power in 2007," Ms. Seyam said, referring to the militant group that rules over Gaza.
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Contributors to her volume entertain some possibilities: relegating marriage to private contract; replacing marriage with a parenting agreement; modeling marriage on friendship instead of romantic unions; recognizing temporary marriages (those intended to last for only a set time); and allowing polygamy.
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In the rich history of marching band transgressions, this was not Stanford's halftime routine against Brigham Young that poked fun at polygamy and exalted the bond between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman.
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"You have some who are fully committed to the LDS Church, including many who have given up the doctrine of polygamy and are members of the institution in Salt Lake City," said Park, the historian at Sam Houston State University.
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I am not an anarchist; I am not a polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy; and it is my intention in good faith to become a citizen of the United States of America and to permanently reside therein.
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It later passes a law or resolution to admit a territory as a state — nearly always imposing conditions that have involved everything from voting rights, the state's political rules, language requirements, and, in the case of Utah, a ban on polygamy.
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One of his potential picks, William Pryor, filed a 53 legal brief on behalf of Texas' anti-sodomy laws, comparing the practice to "polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery," and argued that states should be legally able to prosecute gay people as criminals.
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The Order and FLDS bear some striking similarities: The respective founders of both sects split away from the mainstream Mormon church in order to continue the practice of polygamy, which was formally outlawed in the LDS faith in the late nineteenth century.
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Her half-brother's bravery inspired Rachel to write a memoir — Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult and My Father, Warren Jeffs — which was released in 2017 and recounts how her father molested her before separating her from her family.
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"My experience with polygamy is that one negative person will ruin it for everyone involved," says Brielle Decker, who at just 18 was married to Warren Jeffs, the FLDS prophet now serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting his pre-teen brides.
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"For 60 years, the state of Utah and the state of Arizona looked the other way when it came to this group's practice of polygamy," said Robert Hoole, a Salt Lake City lawyer who has represented many former members of the fundamentalist church.
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It also means refusing to redefine household-level subordinative practices, such as polygamy, as just another lifestyle choice, as well as understanding domestic violence for what it really is — a form of terrorism which must be treated as such under the law.
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SALT LAKE CITY – A self-styled prophet who led a doomsday cult and secretly married young girls because of his beliefs in polygamy and has already been sentenced to 26 years in prison has been given a 15-year term following another guilty plea.
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"There may be examples of [male] cult leaders who did not make use of their position to further their personal polygyny, but I cannot think of any," notes David Barash of the University of Washington in "Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy".
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Before last year's elections, his government enacted a law entitled the "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Practices Act" which reinforced existing legislation on polygamy, forced marriage and honour killings; for example, it barred people who had contracted polygamous unions in other countries from entering Canada.
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While some rose to the bait — the same-sex marriage advocate Jonathan Rauch, for example, was quick to offer arguments for why polygamy was different — other progressive thinkers, like the political philosopher Elizabeth Brake, embraced the opportunity to explore novel possibilities for marriage reform.
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In 2011, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a landmark decision running to 335 pages: it opined that although anti-polygamy legislation does indeed impinge on religious freedom, it is necessary in view of the harm which multiple marriage causes to children, women and society.
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Polygamy is no longer tolerated, underage marriage is outlawed and violence against women addressed with strict legislation in Rojava, which has been governed by a Kurdish party since Syrian state forces withdrew from most of the area in 20113 - a year after civil war erupted across Syria.
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As a result, half-built houses dot the bordering towns, collectively known as Short Creek when they were settled as a single community in 1913 by a group of Mormons who broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after it banned polygamy.
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Then there's all the language around our binding vows to work: joking that you're married to your job, having work wives and work husbands, the idea that fully committing to both your career and a romantic relationship is (especially for women) unrealistic, a kind of dysfunctional polygamy.
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The bill's Republican sponsor, Senator Deidre Henderson, has said her intent is not to legalize polygamy but to decriminalize it so that those from polygamous communities who are victims of crimes can come forward for help or to seek social services without fear of being prosecuted themselves.
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At its height, his ministry claimed thousands of members nationwide, drawn to Mr. Alamo's virulent anti-Catholicism and apocalyptic speech, in which he claimed that God had authorized polygamy, professed that gay people were the tools of Satan, and believed that girls were fit for marriage.
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The concept is far from new, but it's recently received a trendy rebranding online as 'ethical non-monogamy', which points to the fact that it's consensual (not to be confused with oft-problematic polygamy), so all parties are aware that anything goes except sexual and romantic exclusivity.
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The Short Creek region, made up of the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, has been home to the FLDS church since the sect broke away from the mainstream Mormon church in order to continue practicing polygamy, which the main church outlawed in 1890.
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Kadyrov, 41, spoke during an interview broadcast on state TV late on Sunday that showcased what the unpredictable former warlord regards as his main achievements and, to a stirring soundtrack, showed him boxing, riding a horse, and giving his views on everything from polygamy to gay marriage.
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LGBT rights groups and Democratic senators have raised concerns over comments from Mateer, first published by CNN's KFile, in which he described transgender children as evidence of "Satan's plan," lamented that states were banning conversion therapy, and argued that sanctioning same-sex marriage would lead to polygamy and bestiality.
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The families of La Mora are independents who broke off from the larger fundamentalist movement in the 1950s, though some share the same name as distant family members in the separate LeBarón community, said Lindsay Hansen Park, a historian who produces a podcast on the history of polygamy.
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"Part of that was a cruel arithmetic idea: the idea that in a small community you are going to have to force out men, that you're going to have to compel women into marriage, and that polygamy cannot arise by way of free and informed choice," he said.
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Before this new law was put in place the only policy in Tunisia that safeguarded women's rights was the country's Code of Personal Status, a 1956 law that ended polygamy as well as established the minimum age for marriage, mutual consent for marriage and legal due process for divorce.
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Her grandfather, Alma Dayer LeBaron, had been traveling back and forth from the US to Mexico for years and opened his colony as a place where people could practice what Wariner described as "Fundamentalist Mormonism," which supports aspects of Mormonism as it was taught in the 1800s, including polygamy.
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It takes in the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the Muhammad cartoons, French changes of mind on religious dress in public, arguments for and against laws criminalising hate speech and American court rulings on religious exemptions (yes for Amish non-schooling, no for Mormon polygamy and the ritual use of mescaline).
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At the time, Mormons in the West were living through a period known as the "Raid," a quasi-invasion by federal authorities that had the effect both of quashing polygamy in the Utah territory and of breaking the church's ability to govern a society outside the stream of American life.
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And a fun fact: In 1778, Thomas Jefferson wrote a law in Virginia stating that men who commit polygamy and sodomy should be castrated, and women should be punished "by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least" for either act.
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The settlement was largely ignored by the outside world, apart from the occasional court case over polygamy and an ill-advised raid by the state of Arizona in 1953, when 263 children were taken from their parents and held for up to three years, inciting widespread sympathy for the town.
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In September, a landmark survey commissioned by the Montaigne Institute found that 28 percent of French Muslims had adopted values "clearly opposed to the values of the republic," with a mix of "authoritarian" and "secessionist" views, including support for polygamy and the niqab, or full-face veil, and opposition to laws enforcing secularism.
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