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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned polygamy in 1890 and strictly prohibits it today.
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Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Husbands don’t go to the doghouse in polygamy.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Naturally, one is our next-door neighbor to the southeast — the one that handles polygamy laws sort of like traffic violations.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025
Married men and women having an affair ranked dead last in a 2022 Gallup poll of 19 behaviors, below polygamy and cloning humans, with 89% of Americans saying the affair is morally wrong.
—Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025
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Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Husbands don’t go to the doghouse in polygamy.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Naturally, one is our next-door neighbor to the southeast — the one that handles polygamy laws sort of like traffic violations.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025
Married men and women having an affair ranked dead last in a 2022 Gallup poll of 19 behaviors, below polygamy and cloning humans, with 89% of Americans saying the affair is morally wrong.
—Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025
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“Polygamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polygamy. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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polygamy
noun
po·lyg·a·my
pə-ˈli-gə-mē 
: the offense of having several and specifically more than two spouses at one time compare bigamy
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