Nate Oman on Reynolds, Polygamy, and Mormonism
Yesterday, the Federal District Court for Utah ruled that Utah polygamy laws violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. District Judge Clark Waddoup, in his ruling, addressed the 1878...
View ArticlePolygamy Researcher Responds to Sister Wives Ruling
In response to an inquiry from Approaching Justice, author and polygamy researcher Brian C. Hales responded to Friday’s ruling by the United States District Court for Utah which ruled that Utah’s...
View ArticleA Look at the Sister Wives Ruling with an Attorney for the Browns.
In his office, Adam Alba has a picture of early Mormon Apostle George Q. Cannon wearing a black and white stripe prison uniform in the 1890s. In the picture, Cannon is sitting with other prominent...
View ArticleProgressive Polygamist: Polygamists Need to Change Their Ways
Brady Williams, a progressive philosophy student and practicing polygamist whose family was featured on TLC’s My Five Wives, views the recent ruling in the case of Brown v. Buhman, also known as the...
View ArticleTears of Joy: Federal Judge Strikes Down Utah’s Gay Marriage Ban
“I’m in tears.” D. Christian Harrison told Approaching Justice earlier this afternoon, as he took in the news that a U.S. District Court in Utah ruled today that Utah’s 2004 gay marriage ban was...
View ArticleWhat Would You Ask The #SisterWives Family?
I will be interviewing Janelle, Christine, Meri, Robyn, and Kody later this week. I have written about them, and polygamy in general, quite a bit lately. What question or questions would you ask the...
View ArticleHow does a Polygamous Family File Their Tax Returns? #sisterwives
Well, they don’t. At least, not as a polygamous family. This morning, Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown spoke with me about a variety of issues. One thing I asked them about was taxes....
View ArticleAttorney General Holder: Federal Govt. Will Recognize Utah Gay Marriages
See the above special video message from the Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder. Holder responds directly to the move by Utah Governor Gary Herbert who has declared that Utah will not...
View ArticleA Line of Separation between Corporation and State
Thomas Jefferson famously spoke of erecting a “wall of separation between church and state” in order to prevent an alliance of religious and political interests that would undermine democracy and lead...
View ArticleHave You Seen God Loves Uganda?
I have not, but I really want to. Especially after some recent comments made on a Mormon blog about the treatment of gays in Uganda (those comments are addressed here). God Loves Uganda tells the story...
View Article“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” A Little #MLK on His Birthday
Martin Luther King, Jr. was on January 15, 1929. To commemorate his birthday, I wanted to share with you the above clip from his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. This speech is his last. He...
View ArticleSister Wives: Trading Anonymity for Tolerance
While many mainstream Mormons are uncomfortable being associated with polygamy and polygamists, the Browns of TLC’s Sister Wives similarly do not want to be associated with all polygamists. (The Browns...
View ArticleI’d Hammer Out Love
It may be blasphemous to highlight a song performance by privileged White performers on Martin Luther King Day, but I love this song and this performance so much I will risk it. Peter, Paul, and Mary...
View ArticleWill You be Watching Mitt?
The Documentary Mitt opens online tomorrow on Netflix. I am planning on watching it. I did not vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 or in any prior caucus or primary. While I am not a Romney supporter or fan,...
View ArticleIdaho State Rep Wants to Turn Back the Civil Rights Clock
In 1882, led by future state senator Fred T Dubois, the Territory of Idaho enacted a law disenfranchising all Mormons in the territory. This was done because at the time some Mormons practiced Polygamy...
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