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A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century
Marci Hamilton | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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About 20% of boys, and 25% of girls, are sexually abused in the United States. If we were to ignore our age of consent laws, we could reduce those numbers dramatically. And why stop with the laws governing sex?
What About the Rights of the Parents?
Tim Giago | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
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The upstanding and righteous Christian community had to do something. The people living near them had a religion that was so different than their own ...
Warren Jeffs Gives 12-Year-Old Girl Wedding-Style Kiss
Deborah King | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
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This "kiss" photo could not possibly be anything other than a wedding photo. A man in FLDS can have physical contact with a female only if they are married. Period.
Appealing to the Texas Supreme Court to Save the Children
Deborah King | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
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The Department of Family and Protective Services appealed to the Texas Supreme Court today, bluntly stating that "this case is about adult men command...
Texas Appeals Polygamist Sect Ruling
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...
Polygamist Sect's Children Should Not Have Been Seized By Texas, Court Rules
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home
SAN ANGELO, Texas — In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorit...
A Modern Day Inquisition
Suzette Standring | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Our moral compass is broken if we believe wholesale persecution of the FLDS is the safest approach to child protection. We are being duped into criminal complicity.
The Secret Lives Of Married Men
Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
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This week's New York magazine cover story delves into why the Spitzer scandal came as no surprise to a lot of married men. As the author explains, Wh...
From San Angelo, TX
Deborah King | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home
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If a boy in FLDS shows any indication of wanting to think for himself, he is dumped outside of town by his parents and becomes a non-person, unable to contact his family.
Warren Jeffs' FLDS Church and What I Left Behind
Elissa Wall | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living
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For eighteen years of my life I was a member of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I wore long pioneer style dresses, styled my hair in the FLDS up-do fashion, and I believed that Warren Jeffs was the prophet.
The Waking Beast
Doon Baqi | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
There's an enormous quake in China killing thousands of people. This only days after a cyclone named after a flower wreaks devastation on Myanmar. We must be at world's end.
Polyamory: The New Monogamy?
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 05.04.2008 | Living
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The opposite of monogamy -- quick. Polygamy, right? Wrong. Polygamy is when one man has many wives (often with bad handmade dresses and a fierce need ...
The Case Against Polygamy
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
About two months ago, my wife and I visited and entered the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado Sprigs, Arizona, the very base of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs.
Polygamist Sects: How They Avoid Inbreeding Problems
msnbc.com | Dan Childs | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
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To geneticists, the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community, based in West Texas, might look a bit like...
Leaving for San Angelo, TX in the Morning
Deborah King | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
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I've got to see for myself the mothers in floor length pioneer dresses buttoned up the neck and down the wrist, their long handled underwear peaking out, their uncut hair pulled up in a pompadour.
Polygamist Sects: A Further Lesson In Style
Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
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The Today Show did a piece this morning on the reasoning behind Fundamentalist Mormon clothing. They invited two former Fundamentalist Saints on to th...
Polygamist Sects: A Lesson In Style
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living
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Have you ever wondered what exactly the deal is with Fundamentalist Mormon hair and the Little House On The Prairie-esque dresses? Because I have. ...
Bill Maher's New Rule About Catholicism "The Cult" And The Pope
Huffington Post | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media
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Bill Maher ended his latest episode of "Real Time" with a "new rule" about the pope. Pegged to the recently raided polygamist compound in Texas and th...
Between the Sheets in Texas, and Everywhere
Deborah King | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
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It is certainly not only a splinter Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints group that forces young girls to have sex. No one is immune. No child is safe.
Bed Found In Temple For Sex With Underage Girls Right After Marriage, Authorities Say
CNN | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home
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The Los Angeles Times Reports (password required): Authorities searching a remote polygamist compound for a 16-year-old girl who had claimed she was...
Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado
Marci Hamilton | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
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There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints is one of the scariest examples.
Church And State Revisited: The Story Of Smoot
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
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Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.
Big Love: Living With Two Wives
Anne M. Plant | Posted 09.15.2007 | Living
The greatest way I, the second "wife", benefit this family is by supporting the real wife and providing some relief of daily duties.
How to Marry a Second Wife
AJ Jacobs | Posted 09.12.2007 | Living
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I spent last year trying to live according to the rules and customs of the Bible. And I decided that if I was really going to commit, maybe I should take a shot at polygamy.
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