Corrente Boldly shrill ... http://www.correntewire.com/node/10868/atom/feed 2008-04-12T17:06:50-04:00 FLDS: Pedophilia as a Spiritual Exercise http://www.correntewire.com/flds_pedophilia_as_a_spiritual_exercise 2008-04-12T17:06:50-04:00 2008-04-12T17:06:50-04:00 Sarah Taking girls out of school for marriage when they reach puberty, the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints has institutionalized two illegal behaviors as tenets of its faith: plural marriage and child rape. From the site referenced above:

"Salt Lake City writer John Llewellyn, a former member of a fundamentalist LDS Restoration denomination, says:

'The key factor in controlling a polygamist cult is in brainwashing the young women to inculcate upon their impressionable minds that everything not condoned by the prophet is evil, that they cannot go to the celestial kingdom unless they live in a plural marriage, and that the gates of heaven will be closed to the disobedient'." 1

I am one of the people who believe the State of Texas acted rightly in its recent investigation of the FLDS' "Yearning for Zion Ranch," a 1,700-acre enclave settled by "the most loyal" of Warren Jeffs' followers when it was built as an escape from increasing scrutiny of the sect and its practices in Utah and Nevada and Arizona.

Kudos to all members of every local law enforcement and crisis response organization involved in cleaning out this rats' nest.

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