“Gay marriage around the world”
A June 26, 2013, CNN blog post looks at the status of same-sex marriage in other countries.
A June 26, 2013, CNN blog post looks at the status of same-sex marriage in other countries.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life tracks news developments and conducts polling on the subject.
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.
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.
R. Collin Mangrum is a law professor at Creighton University in Omaha who teaches on church and state issues and on the history of American legal thought. 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, 1988).
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.
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.
Read an article published in the spring 2003 issue of the Houston Law Review on the constitutionality of banning polygamy in the United States.