One of the stats thats truely stunning is that Warren Jeffs was married to over 150 women. Many of them became his wives as children in their young teens.
But according to some posters, their religious organization and those that ran it should be given full protections to do as they please because anything else would be a violation of their 4th amendment rights.
“One of the stats thats truely stunning is that Warren Jeffs was married to over 150 women. Many of them became his wives as children in their young teens.”
And they have a commune type thing going where men practice polygamy, and new wives are brought into the ‘hearth’ at young ages.
Though the Mormons no longer practice polygamy, their splinter groups do.
The FLDS is one, and it splintered off from it’s other locations.
Warren Jeffs Declared himself the PROPHET, and took a core following with him to the compound where this stuff is going on.
This core, or splinter off a splinter, is a select set of loyal men, who add JEFFS to their last name.
Even the practice of polygamy includes the premise that a new young wife candidate must reach a certain age and maturity.
JEFFS allowed them to violate it, as he had, as his father had. It was how he kept them loyal.
He kept the women and children loyal by trading them like cattle, if they weren’t.