The glossy Mormon wives and a swinging scandal convulsing the church that says even kissing outside marriage is morally wrong

The glossy Mormon wives and a swinging scandal convulsing the church that says even kissing outside marriage is morally wrong By Tom Leonard In New York Published: 01:24, 9 September 2024 | Updated: 01:29, 9 September 2024 e-mail View comments From their bizarre belief that Jesus Christ visited the Native Americans to their well-known fondness for polygamy, Mormons haven’t always made it easy for others to warm to them. Women like Taylor Frankie Paul, therefore, must have seemed like a godsend to the eccentric American sect. Young, perky and wholesome, she lived in a mansion in Utah ’s Salt Lake City with her equally photogenic husband Tate and their three adorable children.

The videos Taylor relentlessly posted online – showing the family getting dressed for church, washing up dozens of baby-feeding bottles or dancing around her spacious home –– made the life of a conventional young Mormon woman (who generally marry young and rear large families) fascinating to millions. True, some of her skimpier wardrobe choices hardly followed Mormon doctrine that ’thou shalt not be proud in thy heart: let all thy garments be plain’, and nor did her love of filming herself dancing and lip-syncing to rap music. The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, an eight-part reality TV series that follows eight young and glossy Mormon women with multi-million social media followings But then such ‘content’ is the lifeblood of Generation Z social media platform TikTok, where she attracted .