Source: The Guardian A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is courting controversy in Indonesia. Photograph: ayopoligami.com BY Kate Lamb in Jakarta A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is […]
Source: Gallup By Andrew Dugan Polygamy, a practice that President James Garfield once said “offends the moral sense,” is now seen by 17% of Americans as “morally acceptable,” up from […]
Source: Associated Press CRANBROOK, British Columbia (AP) — Two former leaders of an isolated polygamous community in Canada were convicted Monday of practicing polygamy after a decades-long legal fight, setting […]
BBC TrendingGoing in-depth on social media 17 July 2017 Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share A crackdown on polygamy has led to an intense online debate in a former Soviet republic. The most recent controversy in Uzbekistan kicked […]
Source: The Economist The case illustrates the tension between religious freedom and human rights in democracies by P.F. and ERASMUS | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA Many of today’s hottest arguments about […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By NATE CARLISLE Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday signed a bill that keeps polygamy a felony in Utah and increases the penalties for polygamists convicted […]
© AFP 2017/ STR MIDDLE EAST 17.03.2017 An Iraqi MP has proposed reducing the number of widows in the country by providing financial incentives for polygamous marriages. © AFP 2017/ […]
No, I am not introducing a new ‘App’ or ‘Matching Service’ for potential ‘recruitment’ into polygamous unions via social media. What I am referring to is the problem of polygamous husbands using the social media or just spending some time on the Desktop Computer. All of us, whether married or […]
Source: NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, “plural marriages” were empowering in complicated ways. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is […]
William Baude JULY 21, 2015 CHICAGO — NOW that the dust is settling from the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a right to same-sex marriage, there are new questions. In particular, could the decision presage a constitutional right to plural marriage? If there is no magic […]
BY MICHAEL HOFFMAN SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES JAN 14, 2017 When Adam and Eve defied God, creator and master of the universe, and ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, what did they learn? To say “I.” They learned that they were “naked” — they were selves, egos. […]
A Jewish bride sits next to her groom during the Mitzvah Tans dance ritual following their wedding in an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem. (AFP/File) Each year, a number of Israeli rabbis affiliated with the rabbinate give permission for dozens of Orthodox Jewish men to take a second wife, despite the […]
The Independent Adam Withnall © Provided by Independent Print LimitedNigeria’s most famous polygamist has denied rumours of his death, saying he is still “very much alive” at 92 years old, and plans to continue taking more wives. Mohammed Bello Abubakar is a controversial figure in the town of Bida, Niger […]
BYNICOLE BITETTE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Happy wife (or wives), happy life.The family featured on the TLC series “Sister Wives” is asking the U.S. Supreme […]
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous family from TV’s “Sister Wives” filed a request Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy. Kody Brown and his four wives want the high court to review an appeal court’s decision […]
Azad Chaiwala runs two websites Secondwife.com and Polygamy.com Claimed polygamous men are born that way on Good Morning Britain Piers Morgan called him ‘a bit randy’ and called site backdoor Sharia law Aaliya Brown, site member, defended woman’s choice to be second wife By JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 11:17 […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 2 July 2016 A woman takes a picture with a smartphone on the Smetovi mountain range near Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in this December 20, 2015 file photo. (REUTERS) JEDDAH: Bosnian authorities have stipulated that Saudi citizens wishing to travel to Bosnia Herzegovina must […]
06/24/2016 01:30 pm ET Dr. Phil Show see video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pastor-polygamy-benefits-wives_us_576d6674e4b0f168323967c4 “Most of my spiritual life, I’ve been interested in polygamy,” says Thom, a former convict-turned-pastor. “You read through […]
Source: BBC Germany will not recognise polygamy or marriages involving minors, Justice Minister Heiko Maas has said “No-one who comes here has the right to put his cultural values or […]