Word: mormon
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...have followed the case of Tom Green with some wonder. Green, a self-proclaimed Mormon living in the Utah desert, has five wives and 30 children (the Mormon Church excommunicated Green in 1980 for his belief in polygamy). He has just been convicted of bigamy in Provo, and could get 25 years - five years for each wife - for doing what all self-respecting male waterbuck, eland, and gnu do as a matter of course...
Green was born in Salt Lake City. He was brought up a Mormon, and did two years of missionary work for the church in Indiana and Michigan before returning to Utah to study church history. "It was then I saw polygamy had not been abandoned; it just went underground," he says. For proclaiming his belief in polygamy, Green underwent a four-hour excommunication trial in 1980. "For them it was a ticket to hell," Green says. "I saw it as a graduation...
...Green points to the pictures of his 26 children and five wives above the kitchen table and says, "That is my brag wall." At 52, Green is not ready to stop bragging. Three more children are on the way. A self-proclaimed "fundamentalist Mormon," Green lives with his extensive family in the remote desert of western Utah. He believes he is carrying out God's will with his polygamous lifestyle...
...nudity b) Book of Mormon forbids "fitching" c) IOC kickbacks are too pricey d) if Orrin Hatch won't pose, Orrin Hatch suffers...
...prophet's acumen. Holder knew Harper as "Brother Jim," one of seven companions who stayed at the Woodland Park, Colo., RV park that she co-owns. She remembers him in khakis, penny loafers, buttoned-down shirts. "He was very preppy," says another Bible-study participant. "He looked like a Mormon knocking at the door...