Stateline, the news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts, tracks developments involving same-sex marriage at the state level. A March 21, 2013, Stateline article includes a graphic (scroll down) showing which states allow same-sex marriage, civil unions or domestic partnerships, and which ones do not.

Stan Walters, a.k.a. “The Lie Guy,” is the author of The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself From Deception (Sourcebooks Trade, 2000). He teaches courses in kinesic interviewing and interrogation to law enforcement officials throughout the country and has served as an expert on interview and interrogation for Johns Hopkins University. He […]

Kelly Collinsworth is an assistant professor of legal studies at Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky. She has taught a course called “Harry Potter in the Law,” which uses the series as a context in which to discuss the role of government and legal institutions.

Edwin B. Firmage is a law professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who has defended polygamists. A monogamist and a great-great-grandson of polygamist Brigham Young, Firmage teaches constitutional law. He is co-author of Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (University of Illinois Press, […]

Maura I. Strassberg is a law professor at Drake University in Des Moines who has expertise in sexuality law and has written about polygamy.

Michele Alexandre, an associate law professor at the University of Mississippi, is a 2004 Fulbright Scholar researching the legal protection afforded to women under the Haitian practice of placage, an informal form of polygamy.

Read an April 8, 2008, article from the Associated Press (posted by the Washington Post) about the raid on the Texas polygamist compound.

Read a May 29, 2012, article from The Huffington Post about the state of Idaho’s reaction to Five Wives Vodka. Because of the polygamist undertones of the name and logo, the Idaho State Liquor Division banned the vodka.

Read a Nov. 28, 2012, article from The Los-Angeles Times about the state of Texas’ decision to seize Warren Jeffs’ ranch after his conviction.