Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters 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 ...

Fredrik deBoer is a writer and academic. He lives in Indiana. Welcome to the exciting new world of the slippery slope. With the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this Friday legalizing same sex marriage ...

Many rejoiced after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-same marriage nationally in late June. Others jeered. But whatever a person’s take on the Court’s ruling, Americans at this historical moment ...

(RNS) — A new history of the Mormons' brief residency in Illinois in the 1840s shows how democracy has been neither assured nor safe for minority groups in America. (RNS) — Benjamin Park, an historian ...

Advocates say the criminalisation of polygamy made it hard for women who needed help to get it – and hope a new bill will allow them to step out of the shadows Growing up in a polygamist community, ...

Naomi Wright grew up in what she described as a polygamous cult near Buffalo, New York. Her father was the leader. Wright’s father amassed about 200 to 300 followers in western New York, central Ohio ...

The Supreme Court's landmark decision that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right brought out an avalanche of commentary about the possibility of polygamy. Indeed, a Montana threesome is already ...

Americans can come off as rather prude. When we look at our European counterparts, we’re rather uptight in how we approach sex. We’re shocked by anything that isn’t vanilla in regards to sex, put an R ...

In the wake of the Sister Wives lawsuit, and the ruling that cohabitation may not be criminally prosecuted in Utah, it is no surprise to once again hear cries from the religious right that we have ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...