There are a lot of people who have more than one partner in their life. In fact, we believe most people do, but they just lie about it. Many practitioners, rejected by their churches for abandoning monogamy, are trying to reconcile their lifestyle and their faith, said Dave Hutchison, who organized a Phoenix-based group called Liberated Christians. And all of a sudden they become liberated. Many find freedom on the Internet, where a half-dozen Web sites trumpet Christian polygamy and underground practitioners make contact.
Some sites even carry personal ads.
He is 30 years old and called into the ministry. Butt has his own site, recounting how he moved his family from Maine to Utah. It's also how they stay in touch while living in this isolated spot a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City. Just 90 miles south are the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., known as hotbeds for plural marriage. The Butts say they are not like those polygamists, who call themselves fundamentalist Mormons.