Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
Canada’s highest profile polygamist has not only lost in an attempt to win a sweeping ban on the use of evidence and witness testimony in federal Tax Court, Winston Blackmore was ordered to pay $50,000 in costs. via Polygamist Winston Blackmore loses bid for evidence bad in tax court / The Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Details of child brides and the polygamist way of life in Bountiful, B.C. could burst into the public domain in unprecedented detail thanks to the tax man. Winston Blackmore, one of the leaders of the breakaway Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the province’s southeast, has been assessed hundreds of [...]
“I do believe that polygamy has been a harmful way of life for me and many others in Bountiful, both men and women,” [Lorna Blackmore] said in the affidavit. via Polygamous way of life harmful, former Bountiful, B.C., residents allege – Winnipeg Free Press.
So now it’s up to Texas, which isn’t lumbered by a history of polygamy. Unlike Utah and Arizona — where mainstream Mormons are a substantial proportion of the population, many who have polygamous ancestry dating back before the church banned polygamy in 1890 — Texas has few Mormons. via Texas asks to try notorious polygamist [...]
Daphne Branham, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, answers questions about how new laws regarding common law marriage will affect the women of the polygamous community in Bountiful, British Columbia. Ask The Sun: How will the new common-law-spouse rules affect the wives of polygamist Winston Blackmore?.
