Any man abusing a woman in a polygamy life style needs to be hung by a rope from the highest tree, Texas style.
Polygamy is for a very few men who think they need to conquer women and make themselves feel like a real important man. HOWEVER,"REAL" men don't do these kind of things to women.

Amen to what you said, Jake L.

And I will add to it.

Any man who not only abuses women in a polygamy lifestyle, but also has the audacity to blame it on God, needs to not only be hung by a rope from the hightest tree, but also needs to be locked up in a prison, then shot with several balls as he falls from a two-story window, and then shot a few more times, Missouri style!

Warren Jeffs is certainly NOT a prophet nor a good man...I feel sorry for him though...I think he's catching on to these facts. I feel really sorry for all the people he has hurt...especially his own family. He really abused the power he had.

The lifestyle of polygamy itself is not abuse. The men want to live it, the women want to live it, and the children have tons of siblings to grow up with and bond with. Families are one of the best things a person can have. The more the merrier. Nobody's forcing these people into polygamy, and nobody is beating their wives and children. Where's the abuse?

Hanging someone from a rope because they choose to exercise their freedom of religion, that's abuse.

Graphically describing the assassination of a polygamist (Lake J.) is simply sick and disgusting behavior, and has no place here.

RE BAKE YOUR OWN CAKE.

Human HOGS, PIGS, SWINE & male POLYGAMISTS come penny a load. If you can put up with all the fithy perversion. Have a good life in hogs den.

President Gordon B. Hinckley - Nov. 1998

What is the Church�s position on polygamy?

If any of our members are found to be practicing plural marriage, they are excommunicated, the most serious penalty the Church can impose. Not only are those so involved in direct violation of the civil law, they are in violation of the law of this Church. An article of our faith is binding upon us. It states, �We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law� (A of F 1:12). One cannot obey the law and disobey the law at the same time.
There is no such thing as a �Mormon Fundamentalist.� It is a contradiction to use the two words together. More than a century ago God clearly revealed unto His prophet Wilford Woodruff that the practice of plural marriage should be discontinued, which means that it is now against the law of God. Even in countries where civil or religious law allows polygamy, the Church teaches that marriage must be monogamous and does not accept into its membership those practicing plural marriage. Sec. 132 States: one man - one women.

Re Lake J.

I'll help you.

I am LDS, and I don't understand why so many LDS members get so worked up when anyone recognizes the FLDS church as being fundamentalist Mormons.

When the LDS church was started, the single most pressing belief that differentiated it from other Christian religions was it's belief in polygamy. This belief was a very fundamental belief; therefore, any offshoot that continues to practice that belief is seen by non-Mormons as being a fundamentalist Mormon group. Trying to claim the FLDS are not fundamentalist Mormons only makes one look desperate and silly. If some LDS members have that big of a problem with being associated with polygamist, maybe they are in the wrong religion.

Unfortunately for them, the LDS church has no control over what a Mormon is. For 99% of the non-LDS world, a Mormon is anyone who believes in the Book of Mormon. How each person or religion interprets the Book of Mormon is irrelevant.

This is analogous to the "Mormons aren't Christians" line of thought. Some Christians want to say Mormons aren't Christians. Non-Christian see people claiming to follow the teachings of Christ as being Christian. LDS people are both Mormon and Christian, as are the FLDS polygamist.

To Keys,
Actually the bickertonite church is a worldwide organization in over 20 countries, not "a tiny little church in the south"

Please tell me, if the authority continued with the LDS church why did Brigham Young command everyone to be rebaptized when they settled? Was the original authority they were baptized under no longer necessary, wouldn't this invalidate their original baptism? Indeed the true authority was lost and they were rebaptized out of the authority of Jesus Christ and into the authority of Brigham Young.

For the LDS to say that Polygamy is part of their "Distant past" is ludicrous. In that the LDS disavowed Polygamy in 1904, there are doubtless those alive today that are CHILDREN of LDS Polygamous marriages. That's hardly the distant past. In addition, that's only the last century and we are barely into THIS century.

Right or wrong the LDS faith is a young one. Hardly anything could be considered the distant past in their "restored" faith.