[Steely Tom]

Probably loony Margaret Atwood is keying off the horrible story of Warren Jeffs and the YFZ Ranch, a pseudo-Mormon cult in which teenaged girls were raped and sexualized by Jeffs and others.

She is (I suspect) using this criminal to stigmatize all Christians.

This makes as much sense as me identifying all Canadians with bus-passenger decapitator Vincent Weiguang Li, or with Robert Pickton, the mass-murdering hog farmer from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, who killed, butchered, and sold the flesh of dozens of prostitutes from Vancouver's "downtown east side."

[RedMonqey]

Warren Jeffs wasn’t a known figure back when this book was written during Reagan’s first term.

This is a point blank slander of Christians and Christianity.

These loons had little or nothing with “inspiring” this work of (bad)fiction.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The book was written a long time before Warren Jeffs was in the news.

She just hates Christians.

Well she hates normals too.