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Interesting. I wonder if JJ comes from one of the Kingston-like super-incestuous groups. OR, perhaps he and his sister have a child too.

That was a good link, here's more information, covering lots of different polygamy groups. The AUB group seems to be a bit like what Bill has in mind.

I like the run-for-office story much more than the casino story. If someone successfully ran and then exposed themselves as a fundamentalist polygamist with no incest or of child-abuse (marrying underage or unwilling girls) it could really shake up SLC and Utah. It would take a short election like this one to pull it off--and wow would there be fireworks. The church, the state (same thing really) but also nationally.

Utah's careful erasure of the polygamist past would be explosive, someone speaking out publicly and without the typical black-marks of welfare abuse and forcing people into marriage, a regular guy who owns businesses, devoutly talking about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and the politics of giving up a core Church belief would rock a lot of people's worlds. It would get wild there if this happened.

So, I think I am looking forward to this happening. It has enough "real" in it, and certainly enough story, while keeping it about the characters too, to be potentially amazing.