Carolyn Jessop: everybody ends up related to everybody

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/04/15/DI2008041502674.html

<snip>Arlington, Va.: When you were growing up, how aware were you of the world outside the FLDS? What were you told? What kind of a community did you grow up in?

Carolyn Jessop: The community I grew up in was a closed society and had been for generations and because of multiple generations intermarrying, everybody ends up related to everybody. So as a child, any member of that community felt it was their right to discipline me if I strayed from church doctrine.

The outside world was a scary place because I had limited access to it. I was told that everyone were agents of the devil who led ungodly lives and would do anything to destroy the work of God and his children.

[MountainLaurel]

1. For those who haven't read her book

It is an incredible, true tale that reads like a suspense novel with a great deal of sociology thrown in.

[CTyankee]

2. She's been on GMA several times. A wonderful spokesperson.

She was on again this morning. There was a painful interview by Robin Roberts with 3 cult women who appeared to be almost drugged.

[kestrel91316]

3. Thanks to Mormon polygamists in the 1800s, I count among my

millions of cousins: at least one of my clients that I know of, my assistant, perhaps my OTHER assistant, and even Senator Obama, lol.

Virtually everyone in UT and NV with my last name is a 4th cousin or closer.

[slampoet]

4. Not too surprising. A lot of small towns only have seven last names.