Dear readers, I vanished from this blog without an explanation, so let me now offer one and let you know what is going to happen with The Polygamy File. Last fall, I asked to be allowed to step away from the polygamy beat so that I could pursue an opportunity to help a plural family [...]
Here are two photos from the Salt Lake Tribune archives, taken after the 1944 prosecutions of a group of Fundamentalists on polygamy-related charges. I think the photos are from 1945, when the men were jailed. A problem: Our photos don’t have any caption information. Do you know who these men are? If you are willing [...]
Here are several more photos found in the Tribune archives. The original captions, included here, are nearly as good as the photographs!
The photo editor was looking through the Tribune archives and found a file marked “polygamists.” Inside were photos from 1944-45, when 15 men were charged with various crimes related to polygamy. They are a famous — infamous? — group. The men shown in this photograph are: Left to right, front row: Joseph White Musser; Joseph [...]
I interviewed Kody Brown and his wives — Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn — Friday about “Sister Wives,” the TLC docu-series that stars the family. The show, which also features the family’s 13 children, debuts tonight. The Browns had just returned to Utah after making an appearance on the “Today Show” in New York City. [...]
The Centennial Park Action Committee was “disappointed” to learn of comments made by Kirk Torgensen, chief deputy in the Utah Attorney General’s Office, at a recent victim’s conference. His topic was “Polygamy Victimization.” “Disappointed” might be putting it too softly. CPAC issued a statement today during the monthly Utah Safety Net Committee meeting in Salt [...]
. . . the 10th Annual “Polygamy Day,” according to national polygamy advocate Mark Henkel. According to a press release, “supporters of polygamy rights for consenting adults have been celebrating this special date each year, ever since the very first ‘Polygamy Day 1′ on August 19, 2001.” “In what began as a get-together in Old Orchard [...]
Over at the Huffington Post, columnist Jay Michaelson makes this observation in a column on Tiger Woods apparent marital troubles: “How about this one: that the modern institution of marriage, so ardently fought-over by activists across the country, is a historical anomaly that has never been taken seriously in the past, and is unlikely to [...]
Prosecutor drops bigamy charges against West Texas sect leader Fort Worth Star Telegram Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 By Steve Campbell sfcampbell@star-telegram.com Bigamy charges against West Texas sect leader Yisrayl Hawkins were dismissed Thursday after the leader of the House of Yahweh pleaded no contest to four cases involving child labor violations. Hawkins was scheduled to [...]
Just announced: PROVINCE TO SEEK SUPREME COURT OPINION ON POLYGAMY VICTORIA – Attorney General Michael de Jong released the following statement today regarding polygamy: “I have today asked legal counsel for the Ministry of Attorney General to request the B.C. Supreme Court’s direction on two reference questions on polygamy (Sec. 293, Criminal Code of Canada). [...]
