“Polygamist Ranch”. Heh. I have this mental image of the wives grazing and mooing gently.
So did I, but so far I’ve tried to avoid being lynched by the radical violent monogamists here!
As poster Najida observed on a thread last week, "These girls are raped breeding stock."
The "prophet" determines which harem that you as a young girl will be added to for life. The believers of this system stillreadily point to an 1899 mainstream Mormon second-in-command leader (George Q. Cannon) who says "People of the world don't believe in breeding, but we do." (San Pete Stake Conference, Sept., 1899, Smoot proceedings, Vol, 1, p. 9)
This is the problem you get with the basic inherited Mormon worldview--that men are wannabe gods or as their "prophets" say, "gods-in-embryo." In this micromanaged setting, the women & the girls cowtail to almost everything the men in their lives dictate to them...for these men are "gods." (And this is emphasized much more with fundamentalist Mormons--as it used to be more emphasized with mainstream Mormons). According to both mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon thought, these women will not remain married to these god-men for eternity in the celestial kingdom unless he calls her from beyond the veil. Females are led to believe their spiritual eternity is dependent upon their "worthiness."