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The Pew Charitable Trusts: Same-Sex Marriage

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.

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Edwin Firmage

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, […]

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R. Collin Mangrum

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).

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“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.

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