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Polygamy is an anthropological term. A related legal term is bigamy, which refers to someone who has entered into any number of "secondary" marriages in addition to one legally-recognized marriage. Many countries have specific statutes outlawing bigamy, making any secondary marriage a crime. When a man with three wives is charged, for example, he is charged with two counts of bigamy, for the two "secondary" marriages after the first one.
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Polygamy was a way of life until the Quran was revealed 1400 years ago. When the earth was young and under-populated, polygamy was one way of populating it and bringing in the human beings needed to carry out God's plan. By the time the Quran was revealed, the world had been sufficiently populated, and the Quran put down the first limitations against polygamy.
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Polygamy is illegal in both Utah and Arizona. To avoid prosecution, typically men in Colorado City will legally marry only the first of their wives; subsequent wives, although "spiritually married" to their husband by Uncle Rulon... remain single mothers in the eyes of the state. This has the added benefit of allowing the enormous families in town to qualify for welfare and other forms of public assistance. Despite the fact that Uncle Rulon and his followers regard the governments of Arizona, Utah, and the United States as Satanic forces out to destroy the UEP, their polygamous community receives more than $6 million a year in public funds.
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Polygamy expert and retired law enforcement officer John Llewellyn provides a dramatic inside look at each of the polygamist groups, how they began, how they rule their people, their beliefs, and how many are living off your tax dollars. He explores serious human rights abuses that occur in many groups such as forcing young girls to marry men old enough to be their father. A former friend of Tom Green, the author provides deep background on Tom’s life and polygamist activities. John explores the fascinating underground fraud by the various groups and evaluates Brian David Mitchell’s efforts to turn Elizabeth Smart into a compliant plural wife.
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Mormon Polygamy was published by Signature Books, publishers of Van Wagoner's A Book of Mormons co-authored by Steven Walker. This is not a book for idle, passive reading. Each page's offerings are so detailed, so comprehensive, that it takes total concentration to absorb the wealth of well-documented information. From the inception of the practice of polygamy in Joseph Smith's time, to the disastrous effects of the "Manifesto," Van Wagoner has opened a door of understanding to a previously little-understood practice. Van Wagoner, from Lehi, is a clinical audiologist with B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University. He is married to Mary Carter and has five daughters.
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Polygamy was practiced in the United States by the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who refered to it as plural marriage. It led to persecution of the LDS, and the prohibition of the practice after August 29, 1852, in Utah fanned public hostility against the Church. Although Latter-day Saints believed that their religiously-based practice of plural marriage was protected by the United States Constitution, opponents used it to delay Utah statehood until 1896. Increasingly harsh antipolygamy legislation stripped Latter-day Saints of their rights as citizens, disincorporated the Church, and permitted the seizure of Church property before the Church ordered the discontinuance of the practice in 1890.
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