Get your steak knife out, tuck in the nakin, and dump the warm sappy milk out... its STEAK TIME!
A Prophet in Purgatory: Will throwing the book at polygamist Warren Jeffs bust up his sect or be a boon to it?
The article's author looks at the arrest of Jeffs and delves into the history of the FLDS convictions and wonders if all of this public persecution could be a boon to the sect's numbers..
There are some great quotes and some tasty hunks of MEAT!
Here is a quote that even though they are talking about the FLDS girls, it describes the LDS young womens program to a T:
"Tremendous pressure is put on these victims by their family members and friends," Engels said. "These girls are intimidated and indoctrinated. They don't know better. You're taught all your life that what you are put on earth for is to raise children. You do what the prophet tells you to do."
Ready the steak sauce boys! Read on!
uh oh.... did he say SEXUAL and Joe Smith in the same sentance? tsk tsk... Who will be the first defender to attack him? Wade? Gaz? Coggie? Pah'thetic?Warren Jeffs' battle to practice polygamy and lead his earthly domain as he sees fit is just the latest chapter in the 150-year-old saga of Mormon polygamy in the West.
His sect -- which also has members in Canada, Mexico, Texas and elsewhere in the United States -- sees itself as the true continuation of a religious tradition dating back to the spiritual revelations and sexual lifestyle of Joseph Smith, the 19th century founder of the Mormon faith. In 1890, the mainline Mormon Church officially suspended the practice of polygamy in a deal that allowed the Utah Territory to join the United States.
Don't cap the A1 steak sauce just yet... there's even more for y'all to chew on:
Dirty old bastard, wasn't he?One of them is Marvin Wyler, who cites Mormon scripture to back up his belief that Latter-day Saints must practice polygamy to rise into the upper reaches of heaven, where Mormons believe man can "be like God."
"In order to obtain the highest level in the celestial kingdom you have to live in plural marriage," Wyler said. "They (the mainline Mormon Church) gave that up. It was too hard for them."
According to historians, Joseph Smith had taken 33 wives by the time he was murdered by an angry mob in Carthage, Ill., in 1844. Among those women taken as wives by the founding prophet were the already-married wives of his top male lieutenants, a practice anthropologists say can actually breed loyalty among the tribe.
Are they talking about the Primary program of the LDS sect?
"Our parents were to raise their kids as 'calves in the stall.' We were covenant children -- preordained to be on the other side to help usher in the millennium and the beginning of the end and the Second Coming of the Savior."
Here is the juicy piece that they saved for last:
Hmmmmm, like a... um sheep, no, like a lamb to slaughter?"If they would have just let us alone we'd probably have died out by now," said Bistline, who was 18 when the government agents moved on the settlement. "They were just kickin' the mustard tree and scatterin' the seeds."
Perceived persecution often fans the flames of religious faith. That prompts many seasoned observers to predict that Jeffs' arrest and upcoming trial may swell the roster of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
"If Warren plays this thing right, he could have a massive flow of converts," Chatwin warned. "He is going to look like Christ reincarnated and crucified again."
There ya have it bruddas and sisstas, the FLDS is more TWOOO than the LDS.. I know this because jess lookit all of the persecution theys bees gonin through!