FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs may be serving life in prison, but his followers continue with their work on the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas where the group's white limestone Temple towers over the town they are building. Polygamy, the practice of plural marriage, appears to be alive and well in the Lone Star State, despite laws to the contrary.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Polygamy and LDS Mormonism
Polygamy and LDS Mormonism are inseparably entwined. One of the aspects of LDS Mormon-based polygamy is the rampant practice of taking underage girls as polygamous wives. In the western United States, there are at least 30,000 people involved in the practice of LDS Mormon-based polygamy. In these polygamous groups, the compulsion for underage girls to marry polygamists--usually men much older than themselves--is a part of everyday life. In these communities, girls as young as 12 or 13 are often married off to priesthood leaders. The most powerful and influential of these priesthood holders have first pick of the girls. Parents of the young girls submit their daughters willingly into these unions with the hope of being blessed by God in their afterlife. The founder of Mormonism set the precedent for this behavior.
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5 comments:
Once again not "all" groups do this. For example my group doesn't do this, as I mentioned a couple of topics ago.
Fundytoo
Did the founder of mormonism give away his daughter to old men?
ots <----wanna be heterosexual pedophile
ots <----in reality a homosexual, which is why immaculate conception is so dear to his heart. It rationalizes his lack of sexual desire for females - and turns it into something that he feels is profoundly religious.
atar_i
how astute!
rcn
Your affection for me is not desired nor inferred to exist.
I merely have noticed your aggressive promotion of a completely NON FLDS doctrine of immaculate conception for your wives, in addition to the constant net of suspicion cast that you are a certain known molestor of young males.
It's just simple addition for me.
Wants young wives he won't have sex with
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suspected molestor of young males
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relious zealout
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religious zealout who tries to rationalize his lack of sexual desire for his wife because he's actually attracted to young boys.
Hey - I think it's better than your math.
BTW - your reaction was revelatory.
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