Did you know that it’s legal to marry your first cousin in Utah? The Beehive state is one of several states where marriage ...

The first of those relics was polygamy, seen as a system that was fundamentally oppressive to one of the two sexes: women. Bigamy was formally abolished under the Lincoln’s presidency.

The charges -- bigamy and sexual assault -- stem from an ... The 10,000-member FLDS splintered from the Mormon church over polygamy, which the mainstream church renounced a century ago.

The ban on polygamy pronounced by Rabbi Gershom in the ... son of a Sephardi father and an Ashkenazi mother, who was tried for bigamy, having taken a second wife before obtaining a divorce from ...

Prior to the law, "bigamy was a third-degree felony ... Mormon pioneers came to Salt Lake in about 1847, they practiced polygamy — it was part of the religion, it was just a thing that was ...

Along with the bigamy charges, the jury also found Green ... Green said in remarks quoted by Reuters. Green added that polygamy had been practiced by two revered Mormon leaders -- Brigham Young ...

There, until Green drew attention to himself by promoting polygamy on national TV talk ... If convicted on four counts of bigamy, Green faces up to 20 years in prison. In a further trial to ...

Some brief background: Utah’s bigamy statute states ... “To put it simply, polygamy is now lawful in Utah.” (The “now” that Turley refers to may well be only the narrow window between ...

Bigamy was up by 226 per cent between July last ... In essence, the principle of monogamy was envisaged in our laws, while that of polygamy was retained in the customary law.

In essence, the principle of monogamy was envisaged in our laws, while that of polygamy was retained in ... The penalty for bigamy is imprisonment for a maximum period of five years.