Twenty-four hours after the premiere of the SisterWives polygamy reality television series on TLC, Kody Brown is now being investigated by police in the Utah Valley town of Lehi for bigamy.
Under Utah state law, bigamy—a third degree felony—is defined by cohabitation, not by legal marriage.
And now comes the real test: did the Browns win enough audience support in just one hour of airtime to generate public resistance against the enforcement of Utah’s stringent anti-bigamy laws?
Stay tuned.
