Today, the Mormon religion publically disavows polygamy and publically claims to be a "mainstream" Christian religion, but it's commonly known that thousands of Utah citizens are polygamous Mormons who live in violation of Federal Law. Ironically, the Mormon religion says it gave up polygamy in 1890 when it issued the "1890 Manifesto", and in order to become a state in 1896 the State of Utah had to write a special clause into the Utah Constitution that would forever ban polygamy. However,  the US Attorney General for the State of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, has publically proclaimed to all polygamists in Utah that they need not worry about being prosecuted. He goes on to say he wouldn't be able to presecute them anyway because he says, "there aren't enough beds in the Utah prisons to accomodate all of the polygamists living in Utah".

And, just for your information Utah isn't the only place Mormon polygamists live either. After the United States Government began putting pressure on the Mormon religion prior to  the "1890 Manifesto", Mormon  President John Taylor prophecied in 1884 that polygamy would continue in places "protected and hidden by God". Ironically, after the "1890 Manifesto" polygamous Mormons began fleeing Utah and relocating to other places they deemed to be "protected and hidden by God". And, today some of these locations include Bountiful in British Columbia, Colorado City in Arizona, Colonia Morelos, Colonia Juarez, Colonia Lebaron and Colonia Dublan in Mexico, the "Yearn for Zion Ranch" in Texas and numerous other locations in the southwest United States I could name, but won't. But, lets just say they include many other cities and towns  in Utah, California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Washington.

And, in yet another irony while the Mormon religion outwardly disavowes the practice of polygamy, polygamy continues to constitute a key part of official Mormon religious doctrine and "celestial polygamy" is still practiced extensively in Mormon temples today. Consequently, the public disavowance of polygamy appears be just a part of a sophisticated media campaign designed to enhance the appearance that Mormons are really "mainstream Christians" when they really aren't at all. And this raises yet another question, why a religion find a need to become the nation's 12th largest media company?

Apparently the "damn the Federal polygamy laws" attitude of Shurtleff (whose Mormon ancesters were also polygamists) and the rest of the Utah Mormons is indicative of the true feelings of the Mormon religion. And, it probably also shouldn't come as much of a suprise to learn that Mormon religion and the FLDS polygamous Mormons they so publically disavow (but whom they spawned) both share the same Salt Lake City law firm, Snow, Christensen and Martineau. The video below also highlights the efforts of polygamist Anne Wilde of Principle Voices to lobby the Utah legislature in the hopes of eliminating the ban on polygamy and once again making polygamy legal in Utah. It kind of makes you wonder why the Mormons aren't mustering resources to fight this proposition just like they did for Proposition-8.


BBC Video about the thousands of Utah polygamists who will never be prosecuted:
 


Why doesn't anyone in America know about this, and what's going on in Utah?