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Utah Attorney General Shurtleff eager to educate Reid on polygamy battle

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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff wants to “educate” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on what the state has done to fight polygamy after the Nevada Democrat said Utah and Arizona are turning “a blind eye” to the issue.

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Court: Texas Had No Right to Keep Polygamist Kids

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Appeals Court Overrules Decision Placing Sect Kids in State Custody. The 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, in response to motions from 41 sect mothers, ruled that Child Protective Services did not present enough evidence at an April hearing to show that the children were in immediate danger of abuse, which would have justified keeping them in state custody.

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Raid on Polygamous Sect in Texas Raises Rights Issues

“What is the real agenda here,” asks James Harrington, Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. “Is it really to find child abuse and prosecute it or is it also really to break up this religious sect?”

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Authorities in Colorado confirmed Swinton has a history of making false reports

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A Colorado Springs woman is being investigated as a “person of interest” in connection with telephone calls made to a Texas crisis center before authorities there raided a polygamist retreat, officials said Friday.

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Many Polygamists Blend into Modern Society

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At least 37,000 men, women and children live in polygamous families from Canada to Mexico, with most of them in Utah, according to Anne Wilde, who has become an activist for plural marriage. Many of Utah’s polygamists draw a sharp distinction between themselves and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous sect raided by Texas authorities earlier this month because of allegations of physical and sexual abuse. By Wilde’s estimate, about 15,000 of Utah’s polygamists belong to no group at all.

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Polygamy & Politics Mix in Utah’s 3rd District Debate

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David Leavitt wants polygamists prosecuted. Chris Cannon says plural marriage is not government’s business. David Leavitt wants you to live the way he dictates. Chris Cannon believes in American Freedom.

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Nevada Father Submits DNA, Lashes at Raid

Former FLDS member drives 1,200 miles in an effort to get his sons out. David J. Williams called the siege “an injustice” perpetrated by “unhonorable bastards.” Parents who do not provide DNA samples risk being held in contempt of court, said Janice Rolfe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

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UNLV Player Joe Darger Has 17 Siblings From His Polygamist Dad’s Two Wives

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Joe Darger’s father is a polygamist. His dad has two wives. One wife has 10 children and the other has eight.

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Mr and Mrs Zuma (again)

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The polygamous president of the African National Congress is to marry a fourth wife. Embarrassing, or just an old tradition? Polygamy has never really ceased and Zuma is actually much closer to the African norm. It has always been perfectly normal for African men to keep one wife in the countryside, another in town.

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Israeli father of 67 kids seeks 9th wife

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This Bedouin man living in Israel certainly takes the command of be fruitful and mulitply seriously! In my opinion though, he seems to have a relaxed view of marriage in spite of having 8 wives. This article is an interesting look at how this man’s society is able to get away from the Muslim rule that a man can only have 4 co-wives at a time. He is interested in marrying his 9th wife! I would like to hear more about their daily life and how the family operates.

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Watson Dishes on Life in the Lab

In this article, Nobel prize winning scientist and former Harvard professor, James D. Watson, speaks of his views on a lot of different subjects, including polygamy. I would like to hear more of what he has to say about polygamy.

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