Once she fled the fundamentalist Mormon sect ... the dozens of girls she's helped escape and who wrote the book "Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy" -- concedes it's rare ...

Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...

Congress would refuse the Utah Territory's applications for statehood for four decades, until the church renounced polygamy ... Illinois to escape the violent opposition of non-Mormons.