Polygamists

Thursday, July 1, at 9.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

Randy’s a happy man. He has two wives. His church leader is happier, he has eight. As self-appointed prophet
and religious leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, Jim Harmston claims
that by keeping eight wives he increases his, and their, chances of getting to heaven.
Visit Manti, Utah, the heartland of Mormon country, and delve into the lives of the 450 families actively practising
plural marriage. But what of the women required to share their husbands? Amazingly, the film manages to remain
non-judgmental.
As one sharing wife succinctly puts it “I would rather be the 30th wife of a good man than the only wife of someone
who does not have the qualifications.”