Stories tagged "polygamy"

After gay weddings, some worry that polygamous marriage will be legalized next, and that certain values such as monogamy and fidelity will become optional. Are these valid concerns?

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Tuesday charged the jailed polygamist leader of a breakaway Mormon sect with sexually assaulting a child and indicted five followers after state officials raided a polygamist ranch near Eldorado in...

A belief is an idea or a concept of the mind that one holds to for various reasons while faith on the other hand, is entirely outside the boundaries of the mind.

Susana Barlow's book "What Peace There May Be" is a wonderful look into a young girl's experiences, how she views those experiences and then learns to live with them.

Susanna is the 23rd child of 46 children, the quintessential middle child. Growing up in a fundamentalist religious home shaped her life, her values, and her views on literally everything

What Peace There May Be Young Susanna doesn’t know anything other than the family environment that has been created for her-a system without regard for society or man’s laws.

I started sewing my wedding dress when I was 14 years old. Most girls would never think of marriage at such a young age, but some of my peers were already wives and mothers. I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was married off, just like my mother had

"Those kids will never be the same from when they left - never," said Bonnie Peters, executive director of the Family Support Center, a Salt Lake City counseling agency whose clients include members of polygamous communities.

Legal discussion of Gay Marriage laws and rights, as well as the future proceedings that may shape the issue.

As officials haggled Friday over how to return more than 400 children to their parents, it was becoming increasingly clear that Texas' audacious attempt to rein in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had backfired -- and become