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It was good enough for Solomon fl1e examiner Wednesday Sept 21 1977 27 Polygamisr wants plural marriage accepted SALT LAKE CITY NEA In the 1950s the advocates of free love struggled for legal ac ceptance In the 1960s it was prostitutes and pornographers The present decade may be said to be that of the gays Whats next Polygainist Alexander Joseph suggests plural marriage may be about to come out of the closet Joseph is sometimes health food entrepreneur it years old who says he has 14 wives He also savs he is liannier for It Man is polygamist by nature he insists andl am only doing whats natural What hes doing is advertising his extraordinary lifestyle in what he says is an effort to promotepolygamist rights ltights In other words he means freedom of choice Joseph grumps that Americans may now operate bordellos may get as many divorces as they wish may pose in copulation for mass circulation publications But we still cant follow the example set by Gods prophets ie to live with several spouses at the same time Plural marriage was good Joseph argues And too ac cording to the Old Iestainenl the 12 tribes of Israel were foun ded by sons born to Jacob two wives and pair of hand maidens The Bible is full of this kind of begetting Hence Josephs scriptural view of monogamous man is that Were all decendants of polygamists polygamy continues to be widespread even today Western nations discourage the activity but Africans do not nor do some of the cultures in Polynesia and Southeast Asia Joseph says many Moham medan countries also allow men up to five wives thus several Aral diplomats in Washington are heads of multiple familes Then there are the home grown pluralists Some Black For all its history and present currency however plural Its small wonder that Utah is so hard on plural marriage Muslims take multiple wives marriage is the stuff of Polygamy is part of an em Welfare cheats have done it for generations And the most ob vious American clock of course is that out of Utah 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Money CheerfullyRetundod not lost slogan our AWAY or LIFE barrassing past that seems never to fade When Joseph Smith founded Mormonism in 1830 he said polygamy was revelation from God The rest of the nation was not con vinced and the tragic con sequence was years of per secution of Smiths people The Mormons fled to Utah in 1847 to escape harassment But public outrage followed by 1852 even some Mormons were wondering about the wisdom of Brigham Youngs 22 wives they broke away to form church of their own Still polygamy continued oc cassionally in the face of brutal reactions by monogamous vigilantes and US troops Finally in 1890 the Moran leadership declared defeat To honor the memory of Joseph Smith and to minimize the humiliation of it all the leader ship announced simply that new revelation had been received this one superseding the old Since then the church had had only one response to polygamy practitioners ex communication This abrupt theological turn about has never been totally ac cepted by the Mormon minority Throughout this cen tury angry traditionalists have defied the church by forming retaliatory sects Often the sec ts have held rigidly to the gospel of the Old Testament in some cases this has coupled polygamy with zealotry and even violence Currently for example law enforcement officers in both the United States and Mexico are looking for polygamist Er vil Le Baron Hes wanted for multiple murder LeBaron is one of three brothers ex Mormons who in 1968 formed polygamist church in Mexico since then police say LeBaron has killed one brother and 19 other pluralisls LeBarons alleged excess is reportedly the result of his belief that he is chosen by God to install the absolute rule of the Lord on earth by military forceLeHaron has written that since Joseph Smith was next to God in early Mor monism the religion must always have person of such rank He claims he is now that person Leliarons whereabouts are not known The romantic notion has it that he is living in the desert Southwest much the same as did Butch Cassidy laying low in an archipelago of hideouts lie is said to have more than dozen wives and 50 children allot whom he can tap for provisions money tran sporat ion or companship liven if IeBaron is camp lured though Alex Joseph says the violence among polygamists would con tiniieiolence is barometer of injustice he explains When ltah outlawed plural marriage it forced polygamists into the shadows where fear and authoritarian rule can create greed rivalries and law like that oi the UIdWest That law can beharsh and swift Earlier this year polygamist named Ilr Rulon Allred 71 received rivals warning to repent lest the sword of the Lord fall upon you Alfred was killed some weeks later with six shots from 23 caliber pistol Joseph says such assassinations are probably more common than we think Joseph too has received threats For protection he carries several weapons sleeps at various locations and is suspicious of everyone During an interview for this arr ticlc loscph put loaded gun hammer open on table in small apartment the gun barrel was pointed squarely at the interviewer back take no chances Joseph says Im always on guard There are hundreds of people out there whod like to put me in the sand Josephs adversaries are not after the polygamists money or power He has little of either Rather he may be targeted because he is trying to go public Many ploygamists like their privacy They like the secrecy and the intrigue he said They get rich this way So am now perceived as threat to their little rackets Regardless of the risks of publicity Joseph continues to solicit it He is far and away the most public polygamist in America He says he has wed 17 women in all ages 13 to 31 Qie of the nuptials was on television Details of the lives of the lot have been printed in such periodicals as religious tracts and Hustler magazine And now Joseph is expanding the oropagandaHe and is women are the subiects of or l0wltbudget sureflop motion picture called Alex Joseph and His Wives Every little bit helps says Joseph cant say like to open up my private life for every inquiring reporter but its better than trying to live in virtual hiding Joseph is onetime Maine and former California policeman who came to Utah in the 19605 following disastrous 10year monogamous marriage He joined the Mormon church began polygamy and has been excommunicated since 1965 He is bearded flamboyant and heads tiny sect called The Church of Jesus Christ of Solemn Assembly Many in Utah think Joseph is an operator Its noted that he usually weds women half his age There is suspicion that he brainwashes the girls one has declared in an interview that she would kill for her husband Common belief is that Joseph uses the wages of his many working wives to increase his personal standardof living Feminists are particularly critical of Joseph Because he defines polygamy from thE male viewpoint only He does not object women marrying several men polyandry but refuses to believe that any men would be so inclined Womens lib consideros this to be non sense and dismisses Joseph as merely an oversexed over bearingfool In defense the polygamist says all criticism is unfounded My wives are not stupid They are not playthings One is in law school another is writing book They believe as do that pmygamy trees them to pursue their own interests They are not tied down as are monogamous wives And by the way none of my wives work Far from being sexual game then Joseph insistshis polygamy Is decent and highly moral Most men cheat on their wives Evel Knevel says he has slept with 14000 women But Im faithful to my wives and they are faithful to me He says he has healthy sex with proper respect for all 14 spouses Wonderful or no Josephs family is not legally family at all Hence the purpose of his movement for polygamist rights We should have the right to be considered normal people not freaks We should have the right to be proud of ourselves and our ways We 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