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Polygamy foes go door to door in a Utah neighborhood with polygamists to talk ‘bigamy reform’

Eagle Mountain • The salt-and-pepper-haired man who answered the door said he knows some polygamists and has respect for them.

But he also said that he knows there are some people who have had to leave their polygamous homes and that he’d like a system in place for them to report crimes within the households. Before closing the door, the man said one more thing: He complimented Angela Kelly and Melissa Ellis for coming to his neighborhood.

Kelly and Ellis are the director and vice president, respectively, of Sound Choices Coalition, a nonprofit whose website says it is “dedicated to raising awareness and working to end the damaging practices associated with polygamous cultures.