As "Big Love", HBO's fictional paean to plural marriage, begins its fifth and final season, polygamy is on trial in Canada.
"When a man is limited to only one wife, some women will have the choice of marrying a worldly, carnal man or remaining unwed," explained a polygamist and witness for the defense. "If men were eternally limited to only one wife each, some women would never have the opportunity for exaltation."
No, that's not the testimony of Bill Hendrickson or Roman Grant, Big Love's dueling fictional polygamists. That's a quote from W. John Walsh, a real life polygamist who testified last week before the British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada.
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