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FLDS leader Jeffs out of Las Vegas hospital, back in jail
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You just bet the officials will do all they can to keep him alive and healthy!
Only then, will they be truly free from his oppression.
Levi - political prisoner? now that's using your imagination. Didn't think you FLDS actually had a sense of humor. Good one.
JB - since you asked... NO - he's not my brother. He's just the crazy guy that convinced a bunch of weak people to follow him past common sense, to that place where everyone must conform and children's futures are sacrificed in God's name.
That strange person has schadenfreude.
I have waited seventy-seven years for the chance to use "schadenfreude" in a sentence. Thank you, Jim. Joe
God bless the Mormons. Somebody really needs to.
Between the time Jeffs was charged with this crime and the time he was caught, he thumbed his nose at law enforcement and married underage girls. Does the jail do anything to prevent criminals from continuing to commit crimes? If so, then given that Jeffs may never be free again and that he is punishing himself, it isn't really necessary to subject him to the desires of a dictator.
I will defend his right to a fair trial, his right to have food and water in the meantime, and his right to inflict injury upon himself. What I won't defend is his past actions that have irrepairably injured young, innocent lives, both male and female.
His unrighteous dominion over others and his unrepentant, willful disregard for the law, is a civil matter. I'm saddened that he exercised his agency in such a harmful way. Those of us who are embarrassed by his choices are just that: "embarrassed". But those teens that lost their freedoms and innocence must have justice done.
"May God have mercy on him" is my "mantra". He's given me, personally, as a mainstream member of the LDS church, a smidgen of grief.
"Prosecuted to the full extent of the law" is what a civilized society must demand.
So, have the FLDS always been so dysfunctional? Or did Warren Jeffs personal pedophilia destroy the sect?
I thought you were a supporter of polygamy?
What makes you think that any of the earlier posters were LDS? Stop assuming so much.
Name one LDS person who made unkind comments about Warren Jeffs being in the hospital, etc. before you posted.
Stop assuming anyone who posts is LDS.
I am not yet convinced that Jeffs is a pedophile or suffers from pedophilia. His nephews allegations might come under that head, but it is one persons word verse another, so I do not know there. Even with Jeffs' youngest "wife", she had already entered puberty and so this does not fulfill the technical definition of pedophilia.
At the same time it seems that Jeffs was quite overbearing and determned to make sure he was the undisputed ruler of the FLDS. It also seems that he may have moved the minimum marriage age from 14 to 12. However a lot of this is speculation and second hand information. Brian C. Hales "Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism" will give you some insight, but even he would probably admit that it is hard to know everything about Jeffs and in doing so one must ultimately make decisions on who to believe and who to mistrust.
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