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Arrested polygamous leader had 20 wives including some minors, FBI says
PHS ^ | Dec 7 2022 | PBS

Posted on 12/15/2022 3:50:44 PM PST by NeverCheney

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show.

Samuel Bateman was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, until he left to start his own small offshoot group. He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children to be Bateman’s wives, according to an FBI affidavit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bateman; flds; lds; mormons
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Is this still illegal after Justice Kennedy’s Obergefell ruling and the Biden- RINO-Republican Defense of Marriage law?

Just asking

1 posted on 12/15/2022 3:50:44 PM PST by NeverCheney
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To: NeverCheney

Oh, hell no.
ACTUAL Peddyfiles?
Naw, them Qtards will never go after them.

They prefer the imaginary sort.


2 posted on 12/15/2022 3:57:40 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: NeverCheney

Twenty? How does this work?

13 4 week months a year

Monday through Friday with weekends off?


3 posted on 12/15/2022 3:57:59 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

they are essentially slave labor


4 posted on 12/15/2022 3:59:50 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: NeverCheney

“He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children “

The ultimate cucks

Undoubtedly thug boy threatened them and being cowards, they let him trample them


5 posted on 12/15/2022 4:01:17 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: All

.
Mitt Romney had to approve the Raid

Maybe

Lindsey Graham held up the process of Trump nominating a US Attorney in NY, as he wanted the approval of both NY Senators on the pick.

You’d be surprised.


6 posted on 12/15/2022 4:01:40 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: NeverCheney
And here he is!


7 posted on 12/15/2022 4:01:47 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Raycpa

My guess is you keep rotating the non pregnant females via ovulation.

I was told that women living together wind up on the same clock.
I, having a penis, don’t know the veracity of this…


8 posted on 12/15/2022 4:02:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: NeverCheney

Oh so Romney... His niece / wife / whore still running the show? Bring back our token.... A Dingo stole my baby... Man, a dingo stole my baby... Mandingo, baby.

Dogs on the roof and Romneys in charge.... Abuse Inc.


9 posted on 12/15/2022 4:02:28 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children to be Bateman’s wives fricking idiots.

There, fixed it.

10 posted on 12/15/2022 4:02:38 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: NeverCheney

Why does this matter?

Marriage has been bastardized already to include homosexual pairs.

Multiple spouses should not matter.

In fact, multiple spouses has much more precedent than f a gs.


11 posted on 12/15/2022 4:02:38 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: caww

Eyes too close together.

He’s a bit stupid.


12 posted on 12/15/2022 4:04:04 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: EEGator

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.


13 posted on 12/15/2022 4:04:18 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: NeverCheney

How to create your own harem LDS style. Yeah I know the LDS central church in Salt Lake City rejects these cults with their Joseph Smith imitators. Smith had 27 wives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives


14 posted on 12/15/2022 4:04:48 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: joshua c


15 posted on 12/15/2022 4:05:08 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: NeverCheney

It’s the women that have the polygamy problem. A bunch of messed up weirdos.


16 posted on 12/15/2022 4:05:32 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Larry Lucido

Lol, do you have lists laying around?
FR’s Dangerfield…


17 posted on 12/15/2022 4:05:35 PM PST by EEGator
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To: caww

He looks a little sleepy.


18 posted on 12/15/2022 4:06:37 PM PST by Tellurian (Your phone is your cattle tag.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

Wisdom.

Now how do I hide this comment from my wife.... LOL


19 posted on 12/15/2022 4:07:15 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Larry Lucido

Bada Bing!


20 posted on 12/15/2022 4:07:48 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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