“Polygamy at Issue in Utah”
Read an Oct. 26, 2008, article from The Washington Times about the reaction in Utah to the 2008 federal raid on a Texas polygamist sect.
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“Texas jury convicts Warren Jeffs follower of bigamy”
Read an article about polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs’ conviction. Jeffs is serving a life sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting minors.
“Church Responds to Questions on TV Series”
Read about the HBO series Big Love from the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints’ perspective.
HBO: Big Love
See HBO’s home page for its series Big Love, starring Bill Paxton as a polygamist with three wives. It premiered March 13, 2006.
“Hmong Refugees Face First Cultural Hurdle”
More than 15,000 ethnic Hmong refugees now living in Thailand are eligible to be resettled in the United States, but their common practice of polygamy raises problems, according to a March 2, 2004, Reuters article posted by the Washington Times.
“Why just have one? An evaluation of the anti-polygamy laws under the Establishment Clause”
Read an article published in the spring 2003 issue of the Houston Law Review on the constitutionality of banning polygamy in the United States.
“History of U.S. Marriage: Polygamy Conflict”
Listen to a March 15, 2004, National Public Radio program about polygamy on All Things Considered.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Zhuangzi
Read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zhuangzi, one of the major foundational texts of Taoism.