Or at least that's the message he wanted America to receive during an interview with the Huffington Post in which the polygamist stars of TLC's 'My Five Wives' spoke candidly about hopes to dispel the myths surrounding their unconventional lifestyle.
'All of America's having sex,' Brady said. 'And it's no big deal to just answer it and to just say 'Duh no we're not perverted, we're not twisted, we're just normal.'
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'Normal times five.'
Brady appeared with brides (in order of marriage) Paulie, Robyn, Rosemary, Nonie, and Rhonda.
The family, which belongs to no church, considers itself progressive and independent.
Williams and his wives slowly withdrew from the fundamentalist Mormon church in their rural community outside of Salt Lake City during the mid-2000s after re-evaluating their core beliefs.
The family no longer teaches the tenets of fundamental Mormonism to their children at home, opting instead to take from other teachings such as Buddhism to instill good, morale values in their two dozen children, who range in age from 2-20.
Brady now calls the family 'spiritually driven.'
'We want to dispel all those, you know, myths and rumors about polygamist families,' Robyn said.
'The ones that have been in the spotlight, there's things like abuse and stuff that go on but not every polygamist family is like that. We wanted to show that we're normal, we're healthy, our kids are amazing, you know, and good citizens, good students, and you know we've got a good family.'
Nonie added that while some might view them as 'perverted and twisted' she believed the world was becoming open to different forms of consensual relationships.
'We have a great amount of love here,' she said. 'I think people need to see it doesn't just take a monogamous relationship for something to work. You can have many different types of relationships and still have it work.'
The family lives in two large multi-plexes built by Williams that sit across a valley from a breathtaking mountain range. One is a two-story building that resembles a motel with three green doors on the bottom level, each the house of one of the wives. The other two wives live in the ground floor of an adjacent four-plex.
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Two of the wives work outside the home and one in the construction business. The other two are taking college courses. Two of the wives are cousins, and all have been married to Brady Williams for at least 14 years.
The five wives take turns fixing dinners on weeknights for 30 hungry people. Rosemary, the third wife, likes to experiment with new recipes while the other wives stick with the old standbys like spaghetti.
Finally, Brady said the relationship could not work without mutual respect from all the spouses, including him.
'Their voices are just as important as mine, their feelings, everything about them,' he said.
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