JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS MANY WIVES AND CHILDREN
NOTE: the point of this thread is not whether or not people should be allowed to live with and love whoever they choose. The point is that the Republicans are letting illegal polygamist sects thrive and are even subsidizing them through illegal welfare payments. Besides the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the regular LDS Church is secretly about 3% polygamous. Evangelicals and other Christians across the country have little idea that in the last few years and especially in 2004, Mormon polygamy has exploded and has now spread to 30 states, bringing with it child abuse, and what amounts to sex slavery across international birders. The Republicans are betraying their Evangelical voters--and the law--by letting this all happen. SO KEEP THAT IN MIND FOR THIS THREAD.
Polygamy is suddenly thriving again in the United States--thanks to the Republicans. Hundreds of thousands of fundamentalist Mormons and regular Mormons are back to practicing polygamy, with a wink and a nod from conservative GOP Governors and state legislatures. In reality, the husband can choose a new wife whenever he pleases without any discussion with his current wives, and second wives are typically teen-age girls for the partriarch of the family. Of course, he can have sex with as many as he likes each night!
Republican AG ot Utah Mark Shurtleff says he will only prosecute crime reported from polygamist communities, not polygamy itself. Web sites and booklets tell how convenient it is to circumvent the polygamy laws.
33% of people in the article below from FLDS congregations are even on welfare! The GOP is actually funding this threat to marriage in America by turning the other way. In FLDS polygamy:
- women are seen as breeding machines, averaging 10 children per woman
- marriages are arranged very early for young girls and shipped between states and Canada in what amounts to sex slavery
- young men will periodically have their wives and children taken away by the older men and be expelled for minor infractions
- girls younger than 14 or 16 have been "raped" before the legal age of marriage, incest is often reported
- serial husbands are now increasingly common among FLDS members and regular Mormon LDS members.
- When the young girls and women try to escape, they are returned by local Republican sheriffs.
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"On January 10, 2004, the church suffered major upheaval when Dan Barlow, the mayor of Colorado City, and about 20 men were excommunicated from the church and stripped of their wives and children (who would be reassigned to other men), and the right to live in the town. As a result, a few teenage women reportedly fled the towns with the aid of anti-polygamy advocates. Two of the young women, Fawn Broadbent and Fawn Holm, soon found themselves in a broadly publicized dispute over their freedom and custody. They fled state custody together on February 15, and have been on the run in multiple states since.
Allegations of welfare fraud, tax fraud, incest, statutory rape, physical, emotional and psychological abuse--hidden by a veil of secrecy, isolation, and deprivation--in the FLDS dominated communities have been widely reported in 2004 throughout United States media. It has been estimated that 33% of the men, women and children in the group are receiving state and federal aid, though 0% unemployment was reported in the 2000 census.
Allegations also have been made that in the four and a half years ending in 2004, the FLDS has excommunicated over 400 teenaged boys, some as young as 13, for seemingly trivial offenses. Former members claim that the purpose of these excommunciations is that in a polygamous society these young men present competition to the older men for multiple wives, and that the boys must go. Six such teenaged boys have filed a conspiracy lawsuit against Jeffs and Sam Barlow, a former Mohave County deputy sheriff and close associate of Jeffs, for a "systematic excommuncation" of young men to reduce competition for wives."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_SaintsPolygamy is a true threat to Evangelical Christianity, as the lure of having many wives is tempting to many conservative men in rural areas. This was always the greatest fear about polygamy and why the Mormons were driven out of all the states and forced to settle in Utah. There are now Web sites that will hook you up with multiple FLDS wives, and the Republicans look the other way.
FLDS Polygamists talk of Matthew and other parts of the Bible that mention polygamy without any stigma attached as justification for their way of life. Jesus himself never spoke out against polygamy, they point out (it was common practice since Abraham of course).
That's why Evangelicals feel so threatened by Mormon polygamists
We Democrats do not support the Republican Polygamy Agenda!
Picture of modern Polygamist Family:
It is time for the Democrats to tell the truth on this issue and accuse the Republicans of openly supporting and even FINANCING through welfare the SPREAD of Polygamy, a real threat to marriage as a concept of one man and one woman. While they rail about the Democrat-supported "Gay Agenda", in reality they are quietly hiding massive subsidies of the "Polygamy Agenda". This is true hypocrisy.
The Republicans say they are against polygamy and put on a few show trials but in fact they have let it grow after it was down to around a thousand in the 1950s! Let the truth be known that in recent years, the GOP has let the polygamists thrive and grow at a fantastic rate, leaving them mostly alone in return for their solid Republican vote!
This is what the Republicans mean by "family values". And polygamy has already spread beyond the West and come to rural and Evangelical areas across 30 states--to try and convert the young.
Stop the Republican-supported Polygamy Agenda from subverting the youth in your town!
Here is an article from today, proving my point about the REPUBLICANS. Open, public support for POLYGAMY AS BEING A NATURAL THING!
State senator passes out pro-polygamy materialSALT LAKE CITY 01/23/2005 (AP) -- A Republican state lawmaker countered a Senate colleague's dispersal of an anti-polygamy book by passing out folders
defending the practice as natural and not necessarily harmful.-snip-
"Polygamy is a frequent, and arguably, from a historical perspective, a most normal, human sexual relationship throughout most of human history in a majority of societies around the world," reads one of the passages in the folder.
It came from
the Centennial Park Action Committee, a group of women near the Utah-Arizona state line who say it's unfair to characterize polygamists as "oppressed," "abused" or "brainwashed." Walker said she has known polygamists who are "fine, honest, educated, wonderful people."
"To characterize the whole polygamy community as abusive to children and the welfare system is inaccurate," Walker said. http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=102198Republican hidden support of Mormon polygamy--it used to be quiet but is now becoming more open. It's all very real. Look in your phone book and see if there is an FLDS church in your area.
Nother scary article:
Rift in FLDS Church raises local fears
By Mike Weland
Kootenai Valley Press
Originally published November 24, 2004
With the grim specter of the Aryan Nations so recently erased from North Idaho, there is new fear of an equally rabid "religion" gaining a foothold in Boundary County following a rift in the leadership of the Fundamental Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, which is reportedly bringing massive instability to a sect that has remained secretively in the background for decades. The FLDS has existed in a small, closed enclave called Bountiful near Creston since the 1940s, when four families moved there from Alberta. Since then, the local group has grown to over 1,000 people, formerly led by "Bishop" Winston Blackmore, who openly espouses the practice of polygamy as the path to Heaven and who led the only openly polygamous community in the U.S. or Canada. But the main body of the FLDS Church was located in the arid south, where an estimated 10,000 adherents now dwell in several communities. In 1998, former "prophet" Rulon Jeffs died, and his son, Warren Jeffs, became the group’s spiritual leader, and those who’ve studied the group say his actions since are truly frightening. "Warren Jeffs is a tyrant and a coward," said Sam Brower, an investigator who has been working to crack through the wall of secrecy surrounding the FLDS.
http://childbrides.org/canada_KVP_rift_raises_local_fears.html -snip-
Some sites to show your friends and family about this:
http://www.polygamy.comhttp://www.polygamy.org/ http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/polygamy.html http://www.lds-mormon.com/mormon_polygamy.shtmlhttp://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy.htmlhttp://www.christianpolygamy.com/http://www.answering-christianity.com/ntpoly.htmhttp://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/nichols/ch3.htmlhttp://www.apologeticsindex.org/f05.htmlhttp://www.polygamyinfo.com/plygmedia%2004%20164vsun.htmhttp://childbrides.org/canada.htmlHave any more links or personal stories on how Republicans are letting the FLDS polygamists slide??
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