http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/polygamy/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408851/posts For the sake of brevity - straight to the point (pun intended). I have thought long about Huckabee's recent interview with Katie Couric. One of the topics that came up was Huckabee's view on same-sex marriage, and it was no accident that it came up. Huckabee's position on the issue of abortion is concrete - he is ardently pro-life. What remained was for him to effectively frame the same-sex marriage debate, and that he did. Quite effectively in fact. In short, he told Couric that he was pro-traditional marriage, not anti-same sex marriage. He said that it's not that he... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408851/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408812/posts Eldorado, Texas » A 57-year-old member of a polygamous group raided by Texas authorities last year has been convicted of sexual assault of a child. A Schleicher County jury in the West Texas town of Eldorado deliberated less than two hours Tuesday before convicting Allan Keate. He faces up to life in prison for his alleged so-called "spiritual marriage" to a 15-year-old girl who gave birth at age 16. Keate was immediately taken into custody. The jury will hear more testimony before deciding his sentence. Much of the prosecution's case relied on extensive church records seized from the Yearning For... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408812/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407729/posts San Angelo, Texas » Jurors heard more from a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Monday in the trial of Allan Keate, who faces charges of sexually assaulting a child. Rebecca Musser explained why she moved away from her FLDS community. Having been married to FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs in her late teens, she was pressured along with younger wives to marry the new prophet, Rulon Jeffs' son Warren Jeffs, and she refused, Musser said. Musser said Warren Jeffs told her, "I will break you. I will make you a good wife.... The San Angelo Standard Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407729/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:49:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402549/posts 33-year-old professional golfer extraordinaire appears to have amassed a collection of trollops, hussies, harlots, sluts, and other assorted mistresses and bimbos in addition to his main squeeze, the 29-year-old blond, former Swedish model Elin Nordegren to whom he was publicly married in 2004. Too much money, narcissism, ego, sex-drive, and far too many willing and perhaps conniving young women interested in short-term, shallow, fantasy affairs have created the celebrity sports/entertainment scandal of the month. The coverage may keep going for months to come as it has proven to be great fodder for our shallow 24/7 info-entertainment business. Tiger is a... The Moderate Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402549/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 02:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2381230/posts In the April 23, 2008 online-edition of The New York Times, Timothy Egan wrote a post on the Outposts blog claiming that the way polygamy is practiced today by members of the FLDS sect in Eldorado, Texas is the same as it was practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in the 19th century. While most people know that Mormons abandoned the practice of polygamy at the end of the 19th century, it's also important to understand that the conditions surrounding the practice of polygamy in Texas today bear little resemblance to the plural... LDS.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2381230/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379702/posts The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Raymond Jessop, 38, didn't visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury deliberations. Free on bond during trial, he was immediately handcuffed and led to jail. Jurors were expected to return to court Monday to begin deciding his sentence on the child sexual assault conviction. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Lawyers... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379702/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:49:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377345/posts No sooner had we celebrated the exit of Barack Obama's green jobs czar, Van Jones, because of his Communist connections, another off-the-wall administration embarrassment surfaced. President Obama nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy. We thought our nation had settled the polygamy issue a century and a half ago, but this nomination makes it a 21st century controversy. Obama's nominee for the EEOC, a lesbian law-school professor named Chai R. Feldblum, signed a 2006 manifesto endorsing polygamous households (i.e., "in which there is more than one conjugal partner").... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377345/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:08:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372967/posts The following message (though not this picture) was posted yesterday on the Mormon Church's public affairs blog. It explains the group's unhappiness with recent news reports that refer to "splinter groups" which hive off from the Salt Lake City-based "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (AKA "the Mormon Church") as "Mormons." These splinter groups (AKA "Mormon Fundamentalists") assiduously devote themselves to the practice of the doctrine of polygamy (which was renounced by THE Mormon Church in 1890) and around whichever Viagra-addled alpha male has set himself up as the prophet, seer, and revelator for that particular harem. Patrick Madrid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372967/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366979/posts   President Barack Obama has nominated a Georgetown University law professor, Chai R. Feldblum, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Council. Feldblum, a lesbian activist lawyer, formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and in the mid-1980s clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of Roe v. Wade.   Feldblum faces Senate confirmation hearings before she can assume her post at the EEOC. The significance of her nomination for Catholics is underscored by the EEOC's recent ruling that Belmont Abbey, a Catholic college, must provide coverage for contraception in its insurance plans for... Inside Catholic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366979/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:52:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365483/posts President Barack Obama has nominated a lesbian activist lawyer to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In a recent White House announcement, President Obama nominated Chai Feldblum, a professor of law (gay studies) at Georgetown University who formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign Fund, to serve as one of five Commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the mid-1980s, Ms. Feldblum clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmum, the liberal Supreme Court justice who authored the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. “She has also... The Philadelphia Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365483/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2364867/posts Are Mormons Christians? That's one of the biggest issues members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they encounter in today's society. "To us, to be Christians is to be followers and disciples of Christ," said Steve Stanfill, president of the church's Evansville stake, a group of 12 congregations in Southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois and Western Kentucky. Some groups insist Mormons are not Christians. One reason is differences over the nature of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. As "Christianity Today" once explained it, Mormons teach that God began as a finite being who achieved his exalted... Evansville Courier & Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2364867/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2360955/posts More than a hundred years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) outlawed the practice of polygamy. LDS records, however, indicate that early Mormon leaders, Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Young, have both been “sealed” (married) for eternity to hundreds of wives. Despite its current temporal ban on polygamy, the LDS Church promotes polygamy on a perpetual basis. Polygamous unions, mainly on behalf of the dead, using living Mormons as proxies, are routinely performed in LDS temples. Mormon fundamentalists — representing the sects of Mormonism which embrace early Mormon teachings that made polygamy a central part of... Pensito Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2360955/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:46:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360764/posts SNIPPET: "The president has nominated Chai Feldblum, a lesbian activist, to be commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her appointment is awaiting Senate confirmation." SNIPPET: "Feldblum, a law professor at Georgetown University, has signed an online petition titled, "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families and Relationships."" SNIPPET: ""Chai Feldblum is on record saying that the battle between our religious freedoms and homosexual so-called rights is a zero sum game," says Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality." SNIPPET: ""She says she can't think of a case where the religious rights -- in... ONE NEWS NOW.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360764/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359867/posts A South African man wanted to marry four women, but didn’t want to pay for four weddings, so he combined all the ceremonies into one. Milton Mbhele, 44, went against traditional polygamous wedding rules by marrying his four brides at the same time last month, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation . The four brides, Happiness Mdlolo (24), Thobile Vilakazi (34), Smangele Cele (23) and Zanele Langa (24) walked down the aisle together before saying “We do” to the happy groom. Mbhele said he loves all the women equally and that he didn’t marry them purely for the spectacle but... FOX5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359867/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355668/posts Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) is fundraising his way across the country, raising suspicions that the 2008 presidential contender is gearing up for another run. Romney held fundraisers for his Free and Strong America political action committee in three states and the District of Columbia in September, and he will hold two more in Texas and Missouri this week, a spokesman confirmed to The Hill. "Mitt Romney is doing what he can to strengthen the Republican Party nationally and help its candidates be successful, and that is going to take up more and more of his time as we... The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355668/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 02:31:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2355645/posts While much has been said about the heartache of plural wives living in 19th-century Mormonism, these unions could also bring happiness and unusual independence, according to a prominent religious scholar. During a lecture Thursday before a packed house at the LDS Tabernacle, Kathleen Flake said that often only the negative side of polygamy is emphasized. “I am always suspicious when I only hear one side of an argument,” added Flake, who teaches religious history at Vanderbilt University. This suspicion lead her to research polygamy in Utah during the pioneer era, a time when about 25 percent of Latter-day Saints were... The Herald Journal (Logan, UT) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2355645/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355405/posts President Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signed a manifesto praising polygamy and arguing traditional marriage should not be privileged above other forms of union. Chai Feldblum, an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor, is a signatory to an online petition entitled "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships." WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355405/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 20:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353987/posts SAN ANGELO, Texas — A Texas judge ruled Friday that prosecutors could use thousands of documents seized during a weeklong raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch in upcoming criminal trials snip- Texas District Judge Barbara Walther heard four days of testimony on the issue in May but didn't issue a ruling until Friday. snip- first sect man to face trial, Raymond Jessop. snip- The 38-year-old pleaded not guilty to sexual assault of a child during a pre-trial hearing on Friday. snip- Prosecutors accuse him of sexually assaulting a teen who was allegedly one of nine wives. In 2004,... AP via GoogleHostedNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353987/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352664/posts Best-selling author Carolyn Jessop will receive support to care for her disabled son for the rest of his life in a settlement reached Tuesday with her former husband, who oversees a polygamous sect's enclave in Texas. Merril Jessop, 73, agreed to pay $2,350 monthly to his former spiritual wife to support the seven children in her care, with a dollar-for-dollar credit for his Social Security benefit that is currently diverted to her.-SNIP-They had eight children together before Carolyn Jessop left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in April 2003. Their oldest daughter Betty, now 20,... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352664/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351875/posts A law professor nominated by President Obama to become a commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a signatory to a radical 2006 manifesto which endorsed polygamous households and argued traditional marriage should not be privileged “above all others.” Georgetown University Law Center professor Chai R. Feldblum, nominated as a commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is listed as a signatory to the July 26, 2006 manifesto “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships.” The manifesto’s signatories said they proposed a “new vision” for governmental and private recognition of “diverse kinds”... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351875/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:35:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350459/posts When it comes to love, we Homo sapiens are a peculiar breed: We thrill at the thought of torrid affairs while dreaming about the perfect someone with whom we can spend the rest of our lives. Some of this never-ending tug-of-war for our hearts is certainly cultural, but according to a new study it's also encoded in the finger bones of Neanderthals and the upright walking primate Australopithecus... In humans and primates, the ratio between the index and ring fingers is thought to be a telltale marker for how much of the androgen class of hormones -- and specifically, testosterone... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350459/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349612/posts "Milton Mbhele turned up in a white limousine and gave each of his four brides rings and a kiss. South African law recognises traditional polygamous marriages. Even President Jacob Zuma has three wives." Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349612/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:52:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348774/posts .... The terms “Bountiful” and “marriage,” when used together, often conjure up a distinct image. One probably envisages a couple united by a cult leader in a short, secretive, and seedy ceremony. The bride would be imagined as young (perhaps underage), naïve, quiet and unworldly. Her husband would be depicted as older, savvier and lecherous, married already to a number of existent wives. This image does not emerge from thin air. The popular press has gone to lengths in casting Bountiful and other communities of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) as places marked by two predominant features:... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348774/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:35:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2348564/posts The LDS Church - and many of its members - objected last spring when HBO's hit series "Big Love" depicted a plural wife participating in a temple ceremony, calling the episode an offensive act that trivialized a sacred practice. But an entire context is needed to sanctify an image, gesture, ritual or event, said Alex Caldiero, and without its unique context, the sacred cannot be violated. "The sacred sort of protects itself against any inappropriate, any misuse or any foul play by being so protected and encased in a context," said Caldiero, artist-in-residence at Utah Valley University in Orem. "What... The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2348564/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2342544/posts Those curious about the polygamous community that has thrived on the Utah/Arizona state line for nearly 75 years may now take a guided tour through what promoters bill as "the largest and most secluded polygamist colony" in America. "Why the prairie dresses and long braids? No makeup? More than one wife?" -- all questions to be answered during "The Polygamy Experience: A Guided Tour of Colorado City." The four-hour excursion promises accounts from guides "who have actually lived and loved 'The Creek,'" the historic name for Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ... The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2342544/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:53:34 GMT