Well that’s more than a little scary! I hadn’t realized the
similarities....((((shudder))))
..that’s the real problem IMO. Just as the muslim ‘extremists’ claim THEY they are practising the REAL islam, so do the FLDS claim THEY are the true Mormons.
Both are cults to begin with. There are muslims who want to live ordinary lives and who are shunned by the ‘true believers’ that follow sharia and want to spread sharia throughout the world.
Just as the FLDS shun the mainstream Mormons and want to control their people totally, FLDS appears to me to have much in common with sharia law.
Ultimately, what the FLDS appears to have done is set themselves apart from all the rules and regulations of modern society - such as birth and death certificates, normal family relationships, accountability to the laws of the land.
I feel sorry for the mainstream mormon church. But FLDS is an offshoot from the same trunk and they have to take responsibility, just as we demand islam takes responsibility for the terrorism it fosters.