Just saw this statement in a review of the Kody Brown family’s TLC series, which debuts on Sunday, by the Huffington Post’s entertainment editor Katy Hall. Oops. This will be news to the Browns, the FLDS and the Apostolic United Brethren — which is actually the sect that counts the Browns as members: “The Browns and [...]

I thought this comment, which I recently came across, was interesting given the debates about marriage taking place in California, Canada and elsewhere: “It may happen that some young Mormon, three generations removed from any polygamous ancestor, will do a thesis for his doctorate in defense of plural marriage. With what gloating will he point [...]

Here is a section of a story I wrote about Amos Guiora and his book “Freedom From Religion: Rights and National Security,” in which he advocates limiting religious speech that government views as inciting listeners to violent behavior. “If Amos Guiora had his way, undercover moles would be planted in Islamic mosques and in polygamous [...]

Marci Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, told TIME magazine the Utah Supreme Court ruling reversing FLDS church leader Warren S. Jeffs’ convictions was “not terribly surprising.” “Their reading of the statute strikes me as mechanical.” Hamilton went on to say that politics in Utah and Arizona have made prosecutions and [...]

Update: This afternoon, Craig Johnson, deputy Utah County Attorney, said he had no “official” comment on “Sister Wives” or the Brown family, which lives in the county. This fall, the TLC network will debut a reality television series featuring Utahn Kody Brown and his three wives. Here is a story about the show from the [...]

Here’s what happened Tuesday as we scrambled to cover the Utah Supreme Court decision about Warren Jeffs. The court announces on Monday which decisions, if any, it will release on Tuesday. So we knew Monday a decision was coming. I spent part of the day preparing what we call “boilerplate” —  background that could be [...]

Nancy Mereska, president of a group called “Stop Polygamy in Canada,” is blaming Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff for failing to act on polygamy in light of the Utah Supreme Court ruling. She has apparently sent him a lengthy email, also published here, criticizing his actions.

From a hilarious and so painfully true column by Gene Weingarten at The Washington Post, which you can read in full here. “Not very long ago, the typical American newsroom had three types of jobs: reporter, editor and photographer. But lately, as newspapers have been frantically converting themselves into high-tech, 24-hour online operations, things are [...]

From an article by Elizabeth Weingarten in The Atlantic about  a group of young men in Saudi Arabia who are pushing for a renewed interest in polygamy to solve the problem of too many, older unmarried women: “Polygamy’s time is over,” said Thomas Lippman, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “People [...]

Well, the repercussions of the move to the new Tribune Web site and makeover are just now surfacing. For one thing, although this blog is one of the 10 most popular blogs at the newspaper it won’t be featured on the main page. That is because several years ago Trent helped me set the blog [...]