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ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texa...
Jane Minogue | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living
Stop debating whether or not gay marriage will open the door to polygamy and bestiality, and understand that marriage is an ever-changing arrangement to meet individual, social, cultural, and religious needs.
GlobalPost | Stephanie Rice | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
By Stephanie Rice DIMONA, Israel -- As a young African-American man in late 1970s Chicago, Atur Yirmeyahu was contemplating the fairly standard dile...
Patricia Nell Warren | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
The fact is, not one but three different factions want to get polygamy legalized. Each is basing its claim to religious freedom on its sacred book.
Marci Hamilton | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
About 20% of boys, and 25% of girls, are sexually abused in the United States. If we were to ignore our age of consent laws, we could reduce those numbers dramatically. And why stop with the laws governing sex?
Reuters | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision which said the state had overstepped its authority when it removed about 460 childre...
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS and APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living
SAN ANTONIO — Authorities investigating whether teen girls in a polygamist sect were forced into underage marriages and sex said they are also l...
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living
SAN ANTONIO — More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials sai...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.02.2008 | Home
The massive raids on the polygamist ranch in West Texas were sparked by phone calls from a teenage girl in the compound who said she had been sexually...
msnbc.com | Dan Childs | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
To geneticists, the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community, based in West Texas, might look a bit like...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.25.2008 | Living
The Today Show did a piece this morning on the reasoning behind Fundamentalist Mormon clothing. They invited two former Fundamentalist Saints on to th...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
Three of the mothers of hundreds of children who were removed from a polygamist compound in West Texas appeared on the Today Show this morning to disc...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
Have you ever wondered what exactly the deal is with Fundamentalist Mormon hair and the Little House On The Prairie-esque dresses? Because I have. ...
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
ELDORADO, Texas — More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorit...
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AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home