A Utah House committee gave a favorable recommendation Monday to a bill that would effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults but made a change that would require the legislation to ...

SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Legislature has wrapped up its work for the year, capping off a session that saw major changes to the state’s polygamy statute, a revision of a voter-approved ...

Vicky Prunty was talking about “male privilege” long before it entered the lexicon of the #MeToo movement. One of the 1998 founders of Tapestry Against Polygamy, Prunty, who had lived in a polygamous ...

Land of the free, home of the many wives. For the first time in 85 years, the highly controversial — and in many cases, illegal — practice of polygamy could soon be stripped of his felony status in ...

Dr. Shehu Aboki, a lecturer in the Department of Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, says Islam encourages polygamy to protect the dignity of women, save them from bondage and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers voted Tuesday to put new regulations on pornography and remove some on polygamy in separate proposals moving quickly through the Legislature in the deeply ...

In modern America, sex is pretty much a government-free zone. It’s been a long time since we treated fornication and adultery as crimes. The Supreme Court struck down state laws banning homosexual ...

SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah state Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, approving a bill to reduce the penalty for plural marriage from a ...

Debunking the myths and exploring the illegal practice of polygamy. July 18, 2008— -- What do you think of when you hear the word polygamy? Following the recent raid of a polygamous compound in ...

Polygamy wouldn't be a felony crime in Utah for the first time in 85 years under a bill that passed the legislature on Friday and appears to be supported by the governor. Lawmakers voted ...

A bill proposed in the Utah Legislature could remove the threat of jail time for polygamists. New legislation introduced in the Senate would change the offense of bigamy, when two people marry while ...