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Maybe because I was a single mom for so many years, I'd see kids who had nicer clothes, better summer vacations. Those kids had fathers, mine didn't. From the moment the Beach Boys sing "God Only Knows" and Bill Barb Margene and Nicki - a spiritual glow in their eyes from years of living "the principle" - sit at a dinner table on top of the world, literally.

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Sometimes it almost feels like the whole economy, the whole society, everything would balance out better,

If only men who could afford it, could have more wives. Raise the children.

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HBO's "Big Love" was created during a moment of boredom during a cross country drive for the two EP's and showrunners, Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer.

Olsen shared the genesis of the HBO series at the recent TCA's last week.

"It was a car, a speeding car heading away from a disastrous family Christmas in Nebraska, back to New York City where things were safe and we liked out lives. On day two of the drive, just crossing out of West Virginia and Pennsylvania turnpike, Will and I were just pitching ideas around, and I literally said, 'Hey, what about a story about Polygamy?' Read more »

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TORONTO - HBO's "Big Love" kicks off its third season Sunday with a subplot that could have been ripped from the headlines of a Canadian newspaper.

A storyline chronicling the arrest and trial of Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton), a Mormon prophet who has had several wives, unfolds on TV just weeks after two religious leaders in the real-life community of Bountiful, B.C., were charged with practising polygamy. Read more »

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SALT LAKECITY (AP) - An new informal survey by a Utah-based polygamy advocacy group estimates 38,000 people believe in or are living the practice - an increase of about 1,000 in about two years. Read more »

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Polygamy is defined by Webster's dictionary as the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to the Associated Press, is based on Joseph Smith and revelations he recieved in the 1820s. He then founded the Latter-day Saints based on his beliefs, one of which including polygamy, which started around the 1840s. Read more »

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - A woman considered a person of interest in an investigation of phone calls that may have sparked a raid on a Texas polygamist group appeared in a Colorado courtroom Tuesday, a day after she was supposed to appear in a separate case.

The lawyer for Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs said the no-show on the charge of violating probation was because of a misunderstanding and Swinton didn't realize she had to appear, said Kathleen Walsh, a spokeswoman for the 18th Judicial District. Read more »

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"I am...an attorney with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid...currently representing forty-eight mothers in the child custody proceedings that began as a result of the raid of the YFZ [Yearning for Zion] Ranch in early April.

Last month, TRLA filed a Writ of Mandamus with the Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, on behalf of the mothers, where we argued the state did not follow Texas law when they took these children without providing any evidence that these households were creating abusive environments. Read more »

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There are those who condemn the "activist" courts. Generally, those who do are really saying that the courts are not doing what the individuals want done. There is a long history here in the United States that it has been the courts that ensured our liberties and freedoms against governments. We have seen it again with the court's action in the case of the children in Texas who were taken by a state agency based on an anonymous phone call. Read more »

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CENTENNIAL PARK - Polly stands outside the Merry Wives Cafe, a prearranged rendezvous point, nervously watching vehicles pull up. She is middle-aged, clear-eyed and maternal, with an easy smile.

She apologizes to a reporter for withholding her last name but says she cannot risk getting arrested. "I have children," she explains later, her eyes moist. Read more »

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According to the Catholic Church, my father had something in common with polygamists. Since the sacrament of marriage is insoluble, a person who receives a civil divorce is still married in the eyes of this church. If he weds another woman, as my father did, outside the bonds of Holy Matrimony, he may well end up on his deathbed, as my father did, assured by visitors that he does not deserve forgiveness for his sins because he thought he could marry two different women. Read more »

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