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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.

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

Amazing book. There was one line where he asked a current, modern LDS man why they didn't more aggressively crack down on the FLDS and he said something to the effect of, "You have to understand,  you only have to go back a few generations and all of our family trees look like this. And they're basically embracing the scripture without revelations (made for political reasons mostly) the way it was intended and the way it is envisioned in the afterlife. So there's a real reticence to come out swinging against the practice of polygamy or dive too deep into what's happening in these communities. How can we [i]really[/i] say it is wrong without questioning our own beliefs?"[/quote]

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