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Fundamentalist Church Compels Polygamy - Expels Young Boys

Well well well, look at this. Apparently, to reach their idea of a heaven a man must have atleast three wives. Their former ‘prophet’, Rulon Jeffs had some 75 wives and some 65 children. Apparently he convinced them that they were preserving the ‘bloodline’ of Jesus Christ, whatever that is. Very nice. His son, the current ‘prophet’, Warren Jeffs, married all except two of his father’s wives, and probably suffers from some variant of the Oedipus complex. This fellow was on the Top Ten Most Wanted list that the FBI released in 2006 because he’s committed sex crimes like sleeping with a minor and shit like that and he’s now in custody. Good for them.

Sadly, when one man’s got three wives, there are not enough wives to go around, so you have to ensure there are 1/3rd as many guys as girls. This is easily handled, find an excuse to get rid of the boy kids. Sure you don’t kill them or anything but you send them off with nothing but the clothes on their back. Let them fend for themselves, after all, you need that third wife. Luckily there are nicer people in this world, and they’ve helped these guys get a home and get jobs. Ah America, what contrasts!

Here’s the story where I noticed this: Boys Cast Out by Polygamists Find Help - New York Times. You know, the New York Times, that’s the way a news website should be: clean and easy to read, and a button to click to make it all appear on a single page. Kudos to them!

At the end of that story you’ll see a little bit about a guy named Marc who was thrown out of his house because he drove to another town to watch a movie. His father’s four wives were also ‘re-assigned’. Re-assigned?!! What the hell?

Posted by roshan.george under Internet, Random |