Tag: polygamy
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April 25, 2008 06:09 PM EDT --
Just think ladies we could start our own cult where it's the women who get to have multiple spouses. All those guys working and bringing home their paychecks just for us. What, No there wouldn't . . . more
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July 25, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
KANSAS CITY, Mo. It's 6:30 p.m., and Anson Myers has a looming deadline for the thrice-weekly column he writes for the Kansas City Star. He hasn't written a word yet, but he doesn't appear . . . more
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April 20, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
There was a fascinating twist to the news story of the YFZ (Yearning for Zion) Ranch in Texas, hangout of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints) Church. The Texas authorities have not been . . . more
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September 25, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
This follows up on the articles that Kathryn and I published about a year ago on this case. (e.g. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976762730, which has some links to in-depth . . . more
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April 05, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
Warren Jeffs has brought Polygamy onto the front page of news media in recent years. The effort by law enforcement entities to build a case against Jeffs has been fairly successful, but the problem goes . . . more
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April 10, 2008 07:22 PM EDT --
For Boris G., bozlich.gather.com , a poet who dreams poetry, then makes poems of his dreams. You will be amazed when you read some of his articles. I particularly recommend: REVELATA CELESTIA . . . more
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April 14, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
Police have freed some 50 young women and girls held on a Texas ranch that enforces the religious practice of Origamy. The girls were forced to bend themselves into the shapes of frogs, swans, angels, . . . more
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September 26, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
Our news in Phoenix has been dominated by the guilty verdict against Warren Jeffs, the leader of the fundamentalist LDS sect that believes men should have multiple wives in order to get to heaven. . . . more
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April 05, 2008 02:54 AM EDT --
This doesn't bode well for Mormons, and it's probably a good thing for the republicans that McCain is in the presumptive role, and not Romney.
Eldorado, Texas (AP) The investigation . . . more
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January 25, 2007 06:20 PM EST --
Does anyone here watch Big Love, HBO's series about a polygamist family? I heard some press when the show first came on. I don't have HBO so I didn't pay much attention. I noticed the series . . . more
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December 08, 2007 10:16 PM EST --
A comment that another Gather made on a previous article of mine and than my response to his comment made me think about this. So I started wondering about the whole concept of polygamy. So the question . . . more
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December 24, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
The Qur'an (Koran) is the word of God, revealed through the Prophet Muhammad. However it is read and understoon by mortal men, limited in insights and intelligence. It is intended alike . . . more
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April 10, 2008 08:07 PM EDT --
It's sad that there are powerful men at the compound who marry prepubescent girls and consummate the marriage on the beds up on the top floor of the temple building.
Still, power corrupts.
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May 08, 2008 10:59 PM EDT --
There's been much written in the news and on tv lately about the cult of the Mormon church that has polygamus marriages.
Do you think the state should've took all those kids, some little babies . . . more
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February 27, 2008 08:00 PM EST --
If someone offered you $100 million dollars to enter into a polygamist marriage, would you do it?
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April 27, 2008 10:21 AM EDT --
There was an eye opener on NPR this morning. I need to listen to it over again, and I do not see it yet on npr.org, but please allow me to summarize. Basically, the guy was saying that the FLDS church, . . . more
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April 17, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
Hmm, polygamy games trying to stay a few steps ahead of nosy neighbors. Who would know? I'm not sure how men can divide their time between multiple wives. I question whether I'd . . . more
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August 30, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
Warren Jeffs, the polygamist leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was arrested late Monday night, the Associated Press reported Tuesday night.
Jeffs . . . more
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April 25, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
Personally, one wife is enough for me, and I do not condone it, but why should it be illegal for others?
If there is some form of abuse involved, then obviously it should not be tolerated (although . . . more
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July 22, 2006 02:50 AM EDT --
I was born in Utah in the 1950s with a birth defect called epidermolysis bullosa. It is a 'blistering skin' disease, is very rare and includes several subtypes of the defect, all of which . . . more
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