The poor kids can thank their Lord that Clinton/Rodham/Reno didn't get wind of this snake pit back in the 90's when being an alleged child abuse victim was punishable by death.
Posted on 04/09/2008 8:05:24 PM PDT by metmom
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Teenage girls, often younger than 16, were required to have sex in the soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions at a polygamist compound in West Texas, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
The temple "contains an area where there is a bed where males over the age of 17 engage in sexual activity with female children under the age of 17," said an affidavit quoting a confidential informant who left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Oh dear Lord!
Poor children! Sex slaves one and all. Not allowed out, brainwashed to believe that ‘god’ would burn them in hell forever if they did not ‘submit’.
The sad thing is that the errors in the initial warrant are going to present a serious challenge for the DA if any prosecutions come from this.
She was once in a grocery store line in front of a black person and she was terrified that the black person would get to close to her and she would turn black.
You just can't make this stuff up!
A 16 y/0 with 4 children. That’s new.
See article and post 2.
You were saying that this was “religious persecution,” I believe?
The church lawyers asked for the right to go thru all those documents to remove any “sacred” documents.
My guess is info like that would be deemed “sacred”.
What errors are you speaking of?
They just played a song, sung by Warren Jeffs.
Awful. Simply awful.
SALT LAKE CITY — While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate’s great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.
Polygamy was not just a historical footnote, but a prominent element in the family tree of the former Massachusetts governor now seeking to become the first Mormon president.
Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897. That was more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice.
Romney’s great-grandmother, Hannah Hood Hill, was the daughter of polygamists. She wrote vividly in her autobiography about how she “used to walk the floor and shed tears of sorrow” over her own husband’s multiple marriages.
Romney’s great-great grandfather, Parley Pratt, an apostle in the church, had 12 wives. In an 1852 sermon, Parley Pratt’s brother and fellow apostle, Orson Pratt, became the first church official to publicly proclaim and defend polygamy as a direct revelation from God.
Romney’s father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, where Mormons fled in the 1800s to escape religious persecution and U.S. laws forbidding polygamy. He and his family did not return to the United States until 1912, more than two decades after the church issued “The Manifesto” banning polygamy.”When you read the family’s history, you realize how important polygamy was to them,” said Todd Compton, a Mormon and independent historian who wrote a book about the polygamous life of the church’s founder, Joseph Smith. “They left America and started again as pioneers, after they had done it over and over again previously.”
B. Carmon Hardy, a polygamy expert and retired history professor at California State University-Fullerton, said polygamy was “a very important part of Miles Park Romney’s family.”
Hardy added: “Now, very gradually, as you moved farther away from it, it became less a part of it. But during the time of Miles Park Romney, it was an essential principle of the Romney family life.”
Other Mormons have run for the White House, including Romney’s father in 1968 and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 2000. But Mitt Romney’s stature as a leading 2008 contender has renewed questions about his faith and its doctrines.
At the same time, polygamy remains a part of current events.
Another 139 women voluntarily left the compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — known as the YFZ Ranch — and were being housed with the children.
This has been a bone of contention among many, whether the women left voluntarily or not.
I couldn't imagine NOT leaving if given the chance. Carolyn Jessup's testimony supports that well enough.
The first high school I taught at had over sixty girls who were pregnant and/or already had children, and this was not a large high school. I asked one senior who was pregnant with her fourth child why she kept having babies. She said every time she got a different boyfriend she had to see what his baby looked like.
Not much difference in my opinion. Both are cases of girls being used as sexual pawns by men and boys. It unfortunately happens on a daily basis everywhere.
The poor kids can thank their Lord that Clinton/Rodham/Reno didn't get wind of this snake pit back in the 90's when being an alleged child abuse victim was punishable by death.
Authorities were trying to determine the identities and parentage of many of the children; some were unwilling or unable to provide the names of their biological parents or identified multiple mothers.
Sick. So twisted.
Points “a” and “b”, I agree.
Point “c”, nobody knows. There is something we know very little of — divine mercy.
Nothing like trying to protect the place where young teens were raped!
Why, I wonder? -It is so sad.
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