Pro-Polygamy Group Educates Inside, Outside Their Community

Pro-polygamy group educates inside, outside their community By Ben Winslow Deseret News Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:11 a.m. MDT http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700245458,00.html?pg=1        In the face of the controversial topic of polygamy, an advocacy group is trying to build bridges between two worlds that inherently distrust each other.        In the process, the pro-polygamy [...]

Posted Under: Anne Wilde,Mary Batchelor,Polygamy,Principle Voices,Safety Net
This post was written by admin on July 27, 2008 Comments (0)

ABC4 – Mary Batchelor’s comments

ABC 4 “I really respect the church’s position on it, I really do, and I feel like I understand their need to distinguish themselves from those who choose to practice polygamy today.” Mary Batchelor says that she is independent. She believes in the principle but she does not practice it, and she says, she’s Mormon. [...]

Posted Under: Anne Wilde,Davis County Co-op,LDS Church,Mary Batchelor,Mormon,Polygamy,Principle Voices
This post was written by admin on July 11, 2008 Comments (4)

Pro-polygamy coalition takes issue with LDS objection to ‘fundamentalist’

By Ben Winslow Deseret News Published: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 2:57 p.m. MDT 12 comments RELATED CONTENT | E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + – http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700241840,00.html?pg=2 A coalition of polygamous groups is taking issue with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ objections to the term “fundamentalist Mormon.”In a statement issued Wednesday, the group [...]

Posted Under: AUB,Centennial Park,Davis County Co-op,Mary Batchelor,Polygamy,Principle Voices
This post was written by admin on July 9, 2008 Comments (0)

Mary Batchelor & Heidi Foster Visit YFZ Ranch

Hi everyone, we had a great visit to the YFZ Ranch. I, for one, was very impressed. I will be sharing some feelings about the experience soon. One thing I did notice, as Amanda Chisolm says in the article I posted below, these FLDS families are not zombies or drones or without personality. We were [...]

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This post was written by admin on July 2, 2008 Comments (2)

Polygamists Urged to Denounce Underage Marriages

Hi! I wanted to take this chance to clarify some things. Centennial Park, the AUB and the Davis County Co-op have already publicly acknowledged a commitment to encourage their members to marry as adults and eschew underage marriages. This has been their policy for many years. The AUB statement was merely a reaffirmation of something [...]