All the big inner cities practice a worse form of polygamy, they just sleep around indiscriminately and move on down the line. Plenty of pregnant 12 and 13 year olds!It’s all government subsidized too!
The religious link seems to be what upsets the gubmint, it sure ain’t the thought of older men sleeping with young girls.
Certainly the religious aspect of it is perhaps what troubles me most—the very idea of giving your little girl to some drooling old man for a sex slave in the name of this or any other religion just turns my stomach. And the fact that they’re raised solely for that purpose...well, it just makes my blood boil.
They call it “Bleeding the Beast”; the welfare fraud part that is. Cute.
Polygamous James Harmston preached that: God wants them to take from every government program possible. God doesnt expect you to wallow in turkey manure. In another lifetime, we were persecuted and thrown out of Jackson County by the government. Were entitled to everything we can get, he said.
With God ordering fraud, there is plenty of it. Many plural wives claim they dont know the whereabouts of their childrens father. As many as 50% of Hildale residents were on public assistance in 2001; 33% were on food stamps in 1998 compared to Utahs statewide average of 4.7%. In 1997 every school-age child in Colorado City was living below the poverty level.
The twin towns have received millions of dollars from the federal government for housing and street improvements.
Colorado City got $2.8 million for an airport, which prophet Jeffs has used for his chartered Lear jet.
In 2005, Colorado Citys tiny fire department received $350,000 in Homeland Security fundsthe states third largest Homeland Security grant.
Arizona has taken over the Colorado City school system because of gross mismanagement of public funds.
In March, 2006, the federal government did fine a FLDS contractor over $10,000 in child labor law violations for using FLDS boys.
FLDS women pray to have Fumarase deficiency and Downs syndrome children because the mothers gets public funds for each handicapped child.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The FLDS children are money makers.