Should Tom Green, the most visual, affable and prolific of Utahs polygamists have been criminally prosecuted?
Tom Green is an extraordinary, enigmatic individual, very bright, charismatic, bold, knowledgeable and of course, controversial. He is a zealot believer in the sacredness of plural marriage and claims patriarchal priesthood authority to take plural wives. But as smart as Tom is, he let his infatuation with the media and runaway libido overpower common sense. At this writing, New Years Day 2002, Tom is sitting in a cell at the Utah State Prison. He didn’t have to go to prison. He could be enjoying the Xmas season at his Snake Valley desert home, a cluster of beat-up house trailers he calls, Greenhaven, being pampered by his bevy of child brides. But Tom’s ministry, if you can call it that, meant placing his young wives on display and flaunting his lifestyle before television cameras. Against the advise of friends and family, Tom Green, ostentatiously, attracted attention to himself. Members of the media, with the apparent design to more sensationalize the Tom Green story, went to law en
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