'Apostate' challenges radical FLDS sect with civil rights lawsuit
Someone cut openings in the fences at Wyler's stable, allowing horses to bolt, and he suspected FLDS members. The marshal's office was no help.
"The officers would come out and say, 'Well, this fence has clearly been cut, but we're going to fine you $25 for each horse on the loose,'" he said.
Wyler said his teenage son Marvin was injured once when a church youth ran him over with a horse. The boy's crime: wearing a short-sleeve shirt, which is forbidden by the sect.
"I told my son these church kids don't realize what they're doing," he recalled. "I said that intolerance isn't born into people; it's taught."
Though outnumbered, Wyler remains defiant. "When I was a boy, I was taught that 'apostate' was the worst word you could ever be called," he said. "But now I'm one of them, and I couldn't care less. I'm actually proud of it."
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Sounds like Utah's version of the Taliban and it's government's looking the other way. No surprise to me that this man is taking his complaints to the Federal level...no one's listening here! Unfortunately, many outside of Utah More..
Re: wazzup?? Provo, UT
"No surprise to me that this man is taking his complaints to the Federal level..."
Actually it is no surprise to anyone. As almost everybody knows civil rights violations fall under the jurisdiction of More..
Wouldn't it be proper to have a federal office opened in both of the cities? Also, cannot each state rescind any law enforcement privledges to the cities?
I see that Arizona is doing something but what about Utah? where is Utah in More..