A New Book About the Polygamy Reference

Craig Jones, the lead litigator for the government of British Columbia is publishing a book about the recent polygamy reference entitled "A Cruel Arithmetic: The Case Against Polygamy".  It is intended for the general reader, and will be published soon by Irwin Law, Canada.

Jones writes about  "the argument he and his colleagues developed against polygamy, drawing from fields as diverse as anthropology, history, economics, and evolutionary psychology. Yet he shows that it was ultimately the testimony of real people that showed how the theoretical harms of polygamy’s "cruel arithmetic" played out upon its victims."

Temporary Polygamy Proposed

"Ordinary" polygamy is being challenged in Iran.  That country is interested in introducing legal "temporary" polygamy .....

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A Harrowing Tale from an Escapee

Rebecca Musser reveals a tale of fear and horror as she describes life with the senior Jeffs.

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Polygamy Reference will not be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada

The B.C. Minister of Justice said today that the Reference decision made by B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman in November 2011will not be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Living with Plural Wives

On the stand in federal tax court, Bountiful leader Winston Blackmore confirmed that he had 21 wives, including sisters whom he married on the same day in the same ceremony.

“These are pretty much the list of people who lived with me as wives,” Mr. Blackmore said on Tuesday, following a series of questions from a Department of Justice lawyer that outlined the names and home communities of the women to whom Mr. Blackmore was “sealed” in ceremonies sanctioned by leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS.

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Preparing for the End of Days?

B.C. polygamous leader Winston Blackmore says he took out a $25,000 loan from the bank to prepare for the end of the world. 

During testimony in the Tax Court of Canada on Thursday, Mr. Blackmore said a patriarch in the community directed him to get the money to “prepare for the worst.” 

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Money, Money, Money .....

Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore acknowledges he may not be a prophet, but he’s a little less clear about whether or not he’s the leader of a church in southeast B.C

Mr. Blackmore is trying to make a case in the Tax Court of Canada for special status for his community in Bountiful, B.C

Under heated cross-examination Wednesday by federal lawyer Lynn Burch, Mr. Blackmore at first refused to answer whether or not he thought himself a prophet.

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