them are thrilled, saying polygamous families in Utah have lived under the threat of arrest for decades and can now come out from the shadows. Now that were no longer felons, thats a huge relief, said Anne Wilde of Salt Lake City, co-founder of the polygamy advocacy group Principle Voices. This d
Date: Dec 16, 2013
Category: U.S.
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5 things to know about federal judge's landmark ruling on Utah's bigamy law
ost of them are thrilled, saying polygamous families in Utah have lived under the threat of arrest for decades and can now come out from the shadows. "Now that we're no longer felons, that's a huge relief," said Anne Wilde of Salt Lake City, co-founder of the polygamy advocacy group Principle Voices.
Date: Dec 16, 2013
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Advocacy Groups Praise Polygamy Ruling by Utah Judge
Co-founder of Principle Voices, a polygamy group, Anne Wilde who lives in Salt Lake City, said the families that are polygamous have lived with the threat of being arrested for many years and now do not have to worry about having a felony charge placed against them.
Date: Dec 15, 2013
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Religious freedom doesn't protect polygamy, Canadian judge says
Anne Wilde, a Mormon fundamentalist from Utah who testified at the hearings, said Utahs community will be generally disappointed by the decision. Wilde, co-founder of a plural culture advocacy group, is a widow who was one of three wives when her husband was alive.
Date: Nov 23, 2011
Category: World
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Warren Jeffs' life sentence raises questions about future of breakaway sect
All told there are about 38,000 people, mostly in the western U.S., who count themselves as fundamentalist Mormons, according to Anne Wilde, a spokeswoman for Principle Voices, a Utah-based organization that educates the public about polygamy.
"This is not common practice, marrying underage girls of 12 and 15," coalition co-founder Anne Wilde said. "I really hope people can make this distinction. This is not our lifestyle. This is about one person, not about our religious belief system. He does not represent us.