European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine frowned on by Church mormon polygamy ill thrives by Janice Perry United press International despite official mormon disapproval and Laws that forbid their growing num Bers of polygamists live quietly in Utah and surrounding states anticipating afterlife in which plural marriages will be the although polygamy in Utah is so common nearly every member of the mormon Church knows a polygamist or at least can Point out a polygamist com Utah authorities estimate polygamists number about but some polygamists themselves say there Are far certainly would not be a ridiculous said Royston a mormon  Mist who is making the first Challenge to Antipo Lyga my Laws in a a Federal appeals court in Denver is considering putters Owen Leader of the second largest polygamist cult in says polygamists Are gaining in number with converts from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latte Day id say if we had this it would be a year from said revered As a Prophet by members of his Many polygamists live in secretive and often extremely prosperous communes in which All property is owned by the but equally prevalent Are the independents who simply blend into with wives and children scattered in various the children of polygamists especially girls often can be identified by their they Wear blouses with High collars and Long sleeves and Long dresses that fall to their the children also Are often wary about talking about their Home or who their father an Independent compares main Taining two separate households to the Job of running a Small you have to be like a business administrator you just make adjustments so it Doest get in the he although he tries to balance out everyone Stan Dard of that not to say that one part of the family gets the same things everyone else said he said some household items such As a vacuum cleaner have to be used by both his who live 20 Miles Potter works As an his wife Vera is an inventory control clerk and his wife Mary is a he has three children by his two wives and four Chil Dren by his former Potter said he often feels harried and enjoys the Soli tude of the 20mile commute Between i dont really have a place i feel i can Call my he my wives say i can do what i want because its my but i try not to interfere with the Way they Are doing he said both women and the three children often get together As a in we just got Back from a trip he most polygamist mormons live conservative they excuse their violation of Law regulating polygamy because under their religious beliefs they dont believe they Are violating any said Salt Lake county investigator Ben Forbes forged deep ties with the fundamentalists Dur ing a three year manhunt for renegade polygamist Leader Ervil Lebaron after the assassination of Rulon a rival fundamentalist they legally marry one wife and to avoid prosecution marry other wives Only with private rites within their said polygamists often have huge and the leaders often father dozens of that proliferation of wives and children to Many is an off color but Forbes maintains lust is not the basis for poly a that a misconception because with most of the polygamists Ive known and dealt they View their marriages As a religious thing rather than a sexual said Dorothy the 28th child of the slain Rulon Allreds 48 outlined the polygamists puritanical code in her recent in my fathers in the principle of plural she the sexual activities of All partners Are governed by the Law of which states that sex is purely for not for she said a Man May not approach any of his wives except on special command from the or on invitation from the wife when she is like Many children of polygamous mar chose the mormon Church officially ended the practice of polygamy in 1890 to help ensure utahs admission to the any mormon who practices polygamy can be they key word is practice because although polygamy in Utah is so common nearly every member of the mormon Church knows a polygamist or at least can Point out a polygamist mormons believe plural marriages continue in the Celes tial kingdom the highest of three mormon in the polygamists were rounded up and jailed with but supreme court rulings on religious Freedom halted some officials now concede the anti polygamy which prohibit Are virtually unenforced Robert a former Utah attorney steadfastly refused to prosecute polygamists because he believes the Law would not stand up to constitutional it was in my during the mormon polygamy Days and it is unconstitutional Hansen challenged the plural marriage Law after he lost his Job As a police officer in the Salt Lake City suburb of for taking a second he dared officials to prosecute him and they Potter claiming his right to religious Freedom had been the Federal in its own recognizes plural said Owen who became Leader of the second largest polygamist sect after the death of his who has More than six wives and whose Chil Dren Range in age from elementary school to said the internal Revenue service recognizes the relation he said the irs allows him to claim All of his minor children As deductions on his income so Long As his first attests the children Are her he refused to disclose the number of his wives and saying the question is too Allred testified at Ervil Lebaron murder trial that Allreds approximately followers in the apostolic United Brethren pay about in annual tithing and his group owned More than million in the testimony underscores the wealth that belongs to some polygamist polygamist Leader John Ortell Kingston has amassed a Fortune by practising a form of communism called the United order an Experiment in the 1800s by mor Mon Leader Brigham who later abandoned officials say members of Kingston clan Lead lives of Are paid meager wages for working at clan enterprises and believe whoever lives most frugally is this allows Kingston to control an estimated million Empire that includes a Coal a a wholesale ranches in Utah and at least 82 parcels of real a vending machine Busi Ness and clothing and shoe manufacturing and retail he also owns 40 percent of a Bank that has million in according to the Wall Street the largest the fundamentalist mormon polygamy groups is led by Roy about of his followers live in the twin communities of Colorado and straddling the state that also a United order owns All of the land and buildings within the two towns and adherents Are allowed to live there so Long As they live gods teachings As interpreted by the if they can be a common form of crime for some polygamists one hard to spot is welfare the various wives of a polygamist will apply for Aid and give a phony name for their childrens despite Kingston officials say his followers have been drawing up to million a year in Public Aid in what investigators Call the largest welfare fraud Case in the Kingston made a Lump sum settlement of to repay welfare benefits received by four women on be half of 29 children the state claims he in the Kingston does not admit in the state of Utah has obtained in judgments against 10 of Kingston two of whom were the judgments were to repay the state for welfare support provided for some 40 Utah is not unique in finding polygamist welfare in san Diego authorities Are looking for a Man and his three who allegedly conspired to collect More than in welfare Bene Allred says that children raised in polygamist Homes do not suffer from a Lack of i find that most monogamous men like to spend an awful lot of time away from Hunting or at the Pool Allred among our their spare time is for their but he said among children raised in plural mar the girls Are much More Likely than boys to emulate their parents Allred said on Young Man summed up the he i could never put up with what my father put up with the responsibility he put up the stars and stripes Page 13