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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That sheriff and his “tender heart” deserves prosecution too. It’s interesting because there’s been a lot of recent media featuring a brewery and coffee shops, and people talking about returning or moving to Short Creek and renewing it as a normal community. It took someone integrating into the community to find the underbelly.
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You have to understand that, like Utah, nearly everyone in that area is some form of LDS. As a result, they’re going to hem and haw about taking any action against them because they’re “their” people. Defense of the “church” is paramount.

Watch Under the Banner of Heaven (or read the book) to get a better sense of this. [/quote]

I grew up LDS, and I think all LDS women should watch this show with an open mind.  First, there is no way you walk away from this show and think modern FLDS is defensible.   Second, the LDS church may not currently practice polygamy, but Joseph Smith and Brigham Young certainly did.  The entire church is, at its very core, patriarchy in the most extreme and offensive form.   The entire order of the church is built around the power of men and the subjugation of women.  In its worst form, it allows for sexual assault of young girls, and their own mothers are so brainwashed and powerless that they can't defend them. How do current LDS members reconcile the existence of polygamy in the afterlife?  Or that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young lived a version of what you saw on Trust Me? [/quote]

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