I’m getting a laugh out of having to say this:

I am not posing as a polygamist wife. I am not Honey Dawn.

A few months ago a new blog went up allegedly written by a plural wife named (Honey Dawn). From the first post it was completely ridiculous, written in excited-mommy blogger style and riddled with intentional misspellings. Here’s a sample:

WOW!!!! This is SO exciting!!! My first blog!! Pratt says I should REALLY write this becuse Im so clever about writing things down. He says I should write a book about how to live Celestial Plural marriage (the right name for polygamy, which is TOO nasty a word!) so Im just putting down my ideas to help people know what a fun way this is to live, and how very HOLY it is too.

Recently someone claimed to have tracked Honey Dawn’s blog to a Tribune IP address. (Which isn’t possible; it’s a Blogspot blog. Blogspot is run by Google. Only Google would know the IP of the blogger.)

Next came comments guessing that I was behind the whole thing, writing as Honey Dawn.

Sorry, but it just isn’t the case. It would be unethical of me to do this while covering polygamy and I can’t see doing it even if I weren’t. My credibility is more important to me than writing a Big Love knock-off. And anyway, I would definitely write it from the guy’s point of view. Way more angles.