Religion & Law

Polygamy Scholarship
Polygamy is a "hot topic" in family law scholarship (as well as in the popular media)...

Maggie Gallagher: Parents? Rights Trump Polygamy
Maggie Gallagher has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: . . . The Texas polygamy case prompted a wide variety of public reactions...

Nevada?s AG is uncertain whether polygamy is illegal?
"We do know that polygamy is practiced in Nevada. Whether or not it's criminal is a different story," she said ...

England Approves Benefits for Polygamists
In a surprising development with significance to the on-going debate over polygamy in the United States, the British government has decided that polygamist citizens are entitled public welfare despite the fact the polygamy is illegal in Britain.

Debating Polygamy
What is wrong with polygamy? Nineteenth-century Americans coupled it with slavery, calling both "the twin relics of barbarism...

Sharia by stealth - Ontario turns blind eye to polygamy
[Toronto Imam] Hindy is using polygamy as a proxy for his fundamentalist version of Islam, something he wants to see legitimized in Canadian society as a whole...