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The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the decision on April 11, 2016 [62] On January 23, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear arguments from the husband and four wives who star in the television show Sister Wives, letting stand a lower court ruling that kept polygamy a crime in Utah. [63]
United States.: 93 [24] The Court said that while holding a religious belief was protected under the First Amendment right of freedom of religion, practicing a religious belief that broke the law was not. [25] Reynolds vs. United States was the Supreme Court's first case in which a party used the right of freedom of religion as a defense. The ...
Brown v. Buhman, No. 14-4117 (10th Cir. 2016), is a legal case in the United States federal courts challenging the State of Utah's criminal polygamy law. The action was filed in 2011 by polygamist Kody Brown along with his wives Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown, and Robyn Sullivan.
Gallup has seen U.S. support for polygamy rise by almost 10 percentage points over the time "Sister Wives" has been on the air. US acceptance of polygamy at record high, and TV might explain why ...
Christine Brown is making her new monogamous lifestyle very clear. The Sister Wives star, who split from polygamist Kody Brown and ended their plural marriage in 2021, remarried David Woolley in ...
Susan Ray Schmidt (née Ray, born 1953) is an American author, activist and lecturer, notable for her memoir and anti-polygamy activism. Schmidt's memoir, Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy , describes the abuses she suffered while practicing polygamy and adopts a firm anti-polygamy stance.
Texas case G. Lee Cook, his wife D. Cook, and desired wife J. Bronson, of Salt Lake City, Utah, filed a lawsuit in hopes to abolish restrictive laws against polygamy. [48] Court cases against anti-polygamy laws argue that such laws are unconstitutional in regulating sexual intimacy, or religious freedom. [49] In the case of Bronson v.
The show documents the life of a polygamist family, which includes wife Paulie Caroline, her husband, their four other wives, and their 25 children. [2] The family began the series living in an undisclosed city outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, due to fear of prosecution for polygamy. Towns shown in the show are Payson, Spanish Fork, and Provo.