As a young Mormon woman I believed that I should prepare myself for plural marriage (the mainstream LDS church does not practice earthly polygamy of course but does command its practice after death.) I believed I might be able to enjoy the exclusive attentions of my...
What an unusual week for me. Last Sunday night the HBO series Big Love depicted for the first time in major media a scene from the secret Mormon temple endowment. It was tastefully done and apparently not completely gratuitious (plot-wise.) It provided an...
Big Love, indeed. Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized same-sex marriage: the legalization of plural marriage, which many people are calling “the next civil rights...
