This op-ed piece by Mark Goldfeder in the Salt Lake Tribune adds some insightful and respectful commentary on the debate going on regading DOMA and Polygamy.
Archive for the ‘About Polygamy’ Category
Polygamy and DOMA
Posted in About Polygamy, Government, Rights on May 13, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Polygamy USA—Nat Geo’s Intimate Look at a Subculture of Plural Marriages
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life on May 13, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Kaylee Hultgren on Cablefax.com has provided some respectful commentary on the National Geographic Series titled “Polygamy, USA”.
The Right to Polygamy?
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The following is an interesting opinion regarding Jillian Keenan’s “Legalize Polygamy!” article in Slate. It is written by Peter Lawler.
Legalize Polygamy! No I am not kidding. By Jillian Keenan
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on April 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reintroduced a tired refrain: Legalized gay marriage could lead to other legal forms of marriage disaster, such as polygamy. Rick Santorum, Bill O’Reilly, and other social conservatives have made similar claims. It’s hardly a new prediction—we’ve been hearing it for years. Gay marriage is a slippery slope! A gateway drug! If we legalize it, then what’s next? Legalized polygamy?
We can only hope. (Click here to goto Slate and the rest of the article)
My three wives by Joe Darger
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Rights on April 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Society has come a long way toward accepting gay marriage. Could the same ever be true for my polygamous family?
Time – Top 10 Everything of 2012: Polygamy Activism is #5
Posted in About Polygamy, Government, Rights on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It is fascinating to see the attention that Polygamy Activism is now getting.
Click “here” for Time Magazine’s take:
How Polygamy Works
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Rights on July 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We found the following article published in Salon interesting and informative…
Polygamist Elizabeth Joseph writes that if polygamy didn’t exist, “the modern American career woman would have invented it. Because, despite its reputation, polygamy is the one lifestyle that offers an independent woman a real chance to ‘have it all’”. Elizabeth, who worked as a journalist, relied on her co-wives to help her with child care and meal preparation. She called it a “free-market approach to marriage” that allowed her to pick the best man available, regardless of his marital status. Click here to continue reading…
Peeling the Onion
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Polygamy advocate Mark Henkel provides great arguments for Polygamy:
A Snapshot of Polygamy: Stories (Part 1)
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights, School on August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine was a young suburb filled with new trees planted in the easement strip. Dotted and dashed along the sidewalk, driveways stitching neighbors into the commonness of the neighborhood. On each side of us and in just about each home on the street were kids my age and most in my class at school. Young families, filled with promise, living the American Dream. All were equal, right? It was supposed, but not practiced.
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
- Here’s an interesting archive from the July 10, 1978 Vol. 10 No. 2 edition of People Magazine.
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
By Linda Witt
For her Ph.D. thesis in counseling psychology at Northwestern University, Utah-born Vicky Burgess-Olson felt herself drawn to an examination of her Mormon roots and the peculiar institution of early Mormon families—polygamy. The great-great-granddaughter of a man with four wives, Dr. Burgess-Olson, 33, studied the diaries kept by Mormon pioneer women between 1847 and 1885. She followed up her ground-breaking research by editing Sister Saints, a study of 19th-century Mormon women, published by Brigham Young University. A confirmed feminist and mother of two sons and two daughters, Burgess-Olson recently completed summer training at Fort Sam Houston as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. She is a school psychologist in Provo, Utah, where her husband, Eric Olson, 34, an Egyptologist, teaches at Brigham Young. Dr. Burgess-Olson talked with Linda Witt of PEOPLE about her research.
