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(RNS) — The unknowns about eternal polygamy are ‘answered with speculation and myths, creating undue fear and angst,’ says the author of a new book. (RNS) — Ten years ago, as I finished up teaching a ...
Pamela Jones recounts her early life in the unnerving new memoir, “The Dirt Beneath Our Door: My Journey to Freedom After ...
Polygamy is coined from the Greek word “polygamia”. It’s the practice of marrying more than one wife or husband. There are 2 types of polygamy; polyandry and polygyny. While the former is when a woman ...
THERE is a mingling of gayety and seriousness in this title which at once fixes the attention. As if it were not sufficiently surprising that a Christian Philanthropist should call himself so ...
If gay marriage is really about legal rights and the government staying out of people’s bedrooms, then why can’t the same idea apply to polygamist unions? That’s what Kody Brown, star of TLC’s Sister ...
Under classical Islamic family law, a husband has the right to enter into a maximum of four marriages at a time. State regulation under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 (MFLO), however, has ...
Reading through the draft Marriage Bill recently, a curious thought struck me. That despite the drafters’ best intentions, they had concurrently entrenched the weaknesses of both traditional and ...