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Texas Will Attempt to Show That Polygamist Culture Itself Harms ChildrenELDORADO, Tex. -- The ironic thing is that before the big sheriff's department armored personnel carrier appeared outside the Yearning for Zion Ranch, it was starting to seem as though America had finally figured out how to live with its polygamists. For more than a century, authorities had alternately persecuted and ignored the groups practicing plural marriage around the West -- splinters from mainstream Mormonism, splinters of splinters. Mostly, they ignored them. But, in the past few years, officials in some states have begun trying to bring these groups out...

Under shower of questions sparked by FLDS raid, LDS members set differences, explain faithSAN ANGELO, Texas - The Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Second Ward here, Jeffrey Bushman, is used to the quizzical looks and sometimes ludicrous questions directed at people of the Mormon faith. As a missionary in New York 40 years ago, Bushman once was asked if he had devil's horns. He responded by offering to display the place on his head where he had had them sawed off. “The only thing they knew about us were horns, polygamy and the Tabernacle Choir,”...

Airs April 29 at 10:00 PM ET on WE Television Network In the past year, Polygamy has been a hot button issue all over America. From the trial and conviction of the infamous Polygamist leader and member of the FBI’s Most Wanted List Warren Jeffs, to Mormon Mitt Romney’s run for the Presidency, there has been no shortage of news about the subject. In this episode of Secret Lives of Women, we profile 3 women, all of whom have different stories to tell about their involvement with Polygamy. Flora escaped from the infamous Polygamous cult known as the FLDS (Fundamentalist...