Hellfire and sexual coercion: the dark side of American polygamist sects

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Hellfire and sexual coercion: the dark side of American polygamist sects

Julian Borger in Manti, Utah
Thursday June 30, 2005
The Guardian

James Harmston's letters to his youngest bride threaten fire and brimstone for her refusal to sleep with him. Not only would Rachael, 43 years his junior, have "a lonely miserable life" in this world for not going to his bed, but it would be far worse in the next.

"Rachael, the facts are, whether you want to believe or not, the end is coming and judgment will be executed in severity, especially for those who have broken their covenants," Mr Harmston wrote, adding: "For certain I will deal with you in the future eternity."

He signed himself "Your Husband, King and Priest", and sent copies of his letters to five of his 18 wives, one of whom was Rachael's mother, Pauline.

They would be troubling letters from any jilted husband. But from Mr Harmston - the self-declared prophet of a polygamist and apocalyptic sect, the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days - they were terrifying.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1517783,00.html

PATRIARCHY: a form of male psychopathic neurosis?

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1. Aren't all of these polygamist sects/cults rooted in the Mormon...

...religion?

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3. Author of "God's Brothel" speaks:

Andrea Moore-Emmett, the author of God's Brothel, a book about polygamy's victims, said: "The national press just thought it's a goofy Utah problem. But it's spread all over the country, in 38 states."


and

"here in America we have a society every bit as repressive as the Taliban," Ms Moore-Emmett said.

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4. Mostly just the ones whose name is some variant on...

..."The Really Truly Actual Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (not to be confused with the corrupted kow-tow-ing phonies who will burn in Hell)". Which means probably most, but not all.

Just for a non-Mormon-rooted example, the Branch Davidians (which had limited polygamy: it was ok only for Koresh) had their roots in the Seventh Day Adventists.

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2. "orgasm and witness of the Holy Ghost are the same thing,"

some men use any old excuse.....

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5. If her mother is the old goat's wife,

is the old goat her FATHER????

Good gawd, that's creepy even for child rapists parading as polygamous husbands!

Usually they trade barely pubescent girls off to each other. They throw teenaged males out like something from the back of the fridge that they couldn't quite identify.

Honestly, what does it say about this country that these men are allowed to continue?