Long article on Mormon polygamy ... general information on the subject HERE.
Posted on 04/06/2016 9:24:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
A decade after the arrest of polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs, insiders say his church has literally become a place of feast or famine, of haves and have-nots.
Prison has done little to loosen Jeffs' hold on many of his followers, even if he is now a convicted child-sex offender serving a life sentence. They still await his revelations and follow his directives, both difficult and bizarre.
But some members are leaving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - and disobeying their prophet's longstanding orders to avoid law enforcement and "answer them nothing."
These FLDS outcasts are talking to the FBI.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox2now.com ...
It’s amazing the hold this man has on so many people. All I can say is; be careful, and never forget the Jim Jones Guyana incident. I recall that week of breaking news in November of 1978. They who drank the Kool-Aid perished first.
Folks are still drinking the Kool-aid . . . you just can’t fix stupid.
One can only hear “Super Freak” when thinking about that situation.
"No, they do not. The mainstream Mormon Church officially ended the practice of polygamy in 1890."
I understand that polygamy, while not an official doctrine of the Mormon's right now, is still frequently practiced and more so "winked at" than prohibited.
Woman on left in pink has Romulan eyebrows.....
Take the Bible out as the final authority and men’s hearts will devise all sorts of wickedness.
But really, I can’t even imagine the first woman saying, “Yes! This is a great idea!”
Don’t forget that people are raised in his cult from birth. Their parents and all their relatives belong to the cult, they are isolated from the outside world. This is how cults work. It is tragic that people can lose their identity and souls in cults.
A question that comes to my mind is how they have gotten away with this for so long with police and government not intervening. They have some businesses going and they have to sell their products to other businesses. Do the *mainstream* Mormons know what is going on and do they control the politics of those areas where the Jeff cult lives?
Whoa! That’s astonishing!
“never forget the Jim Jones Guyana”
Or David Koresh or Marshall Applewhite or Charles Manson for that matter.....list goes on and on.
Matthew 7:15-20
It's like living in North Korea.
Polygamy is very popular with the secular crowd these days and if you Google your city and the word ‘polyamory’ you’ll find you have a group in your city.
It’s practiced by a few non-Mormon Christian groups.
It’s also practiced by a lot of politicians (like Arnold Schwarzenegger) and celebrities (like Hugh Hefner and Charlie Sheen). Seems that so long as it’s “just about sex” then it’s acceptable to most Americans.
But if these people actually commit to one another and raise families then the liberal media culture goes after them because THAT’S horrible! But, yeah, cheating and shacking up are okay.
Some of the mainstream Mormons at least are sympathetic to the breakaway sects like this. Since these sects are “fundamentalist”, practicing teachings that the mother church can’t legally or practically advocate anymore, they garner more sympathy than you would normally see in that kind of situation.
“Woman on left in pink has Romulan eyebrows.....”
The guy starred in Alien (Alien (singular, is the first movie) as one of the mechanics (Brett) played by Harry Dean Stanton.
This photo must be from a movie.
“Seems that so long as it’s “just about sex” then it’s acceptable to most Americans.
But if these people actually commit to one another and raise families then the liberal media culture goes after them because THAT’S horrible!”
The difference is about shame. Our culture has a long history of tolerating “peccadilloes”, sins of lust, etc to a certain extent, but we expect respectable people to show some shame for those sins and try to hide them from the public eye.
If someone parades those sins out in full view, that lack of shame is more offensive to us than the fact that they sinned. We all sin, we are all tempted to do things we know we should not, but, at least until recently, few of us were so shameless that we would proudly advertise our favorite sins.
Harry Dean Stanton and wives in Big Love, a Hollywood fairy tale on the realities of polygamy
Read more at: http://www.stepfordwives.org/diary/tag/mormons/
Where was the shame (and legal repercussions) for Hefner and Sheen who were openly living in polygamous situations?
It didn’t exist.
No, the beast, rather the innocent lamb, is the tax payers.
The judge won't hear the case until October. That's plenty of time for 3 more delays and 3 dozen after that. Come on, it'll never be heard.
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