Utah’s Safe Passage grant which sought $900,000 in funding domestic violence outreach to polygamous communities was turned down by the U.S. Justice Department. Brook Adams has written a very interesting article which makes some excellent points about the stereotypes that have been placed on polygamy. Below is an excerpt from Brooks blog or you can read the entire article here HERE ”Approximately 80 percent live in isolated and remote rural areas. Most have chosen to live as far away as possible from mainstream society because bigamy is a third-degree felony and they worry they will be arrested and their families separated.”
Comment: The majority of fundamentalist Mormons, and thus plural families, live in the Salt Lake Valley.
April 25, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Family is such a loaded word: we revere it and then learn that in many cases it’s simply a setting for powerlessness of most of its members.
Polygamy is a lifestyle for men who want to have sex with more than one woman. I notice that you don’t allow your women to have more than one man.
I feel sorry for your women, and I loathe the fact that they are threatened with hellfire for not submitting.
What a crock.