Word: polygamist
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...must admit, I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy.' MITT ROMNEY, the Mormon Republican U.S. presidential candidate, whose great-grandfather was a polygamist...
...they're not church doctrine." Both Romney and wife Ann regularly make a punch line of the fact that he's the only leading Republican contender who is still on his first marriage. And for the record, Romney's great-grandfather, who had five wives, was the last polygamist in the family line...
Come for the polygamist, stay for the thespians! The story of a Salt Lake City, Utah, man (Bill Paxton) and his multiple wives was a surprisingly sympathetic treatment of religious fundamentalism and a master-class acting showcase. Ginnifer Goodwin, Chloë Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn portrayed a complicated "sister-wives" dynamic, while Harry Dean Stanton was supporting character of the year as a deliciously snaky cult leader...
...HIDING. Robert Redeker, 52, high school philosophy teacher; after receiving death threats over an opinion article he published in the French daily Le Figaro, calling the Prophet Muhammad a "pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." Redeker has left his home near Toulouse and is under police protection...
...Figaro published his op-ed piece about Islam on Sept.19. Entitled "Faced with Islamist intimidations, what should the free world do?," Redeker's article called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" that shows the prophet Mohammad to have been "a pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." The very day the piece came out, Redeker started receiving e-mail death threats. In a letter to a friend published this week in Le Monde, Redeker wrote that one website condemning him to death included a map showing exactly where he and his family lived, along with photos...