Discussion for article #247019
…communities that for years have been shrouded in secrecy and are distrustful of government and outsiders.
Uh…probably because polygamy is still illegal in all 50 states in this country and Gawd knows what else they’re doing that’s creepy weird among this cult.
Can’t understand why they didn’t just go after these people for that to begin with.
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Religious freedom on steroids. And yet, the true believers will continue to refuse to see.
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For the life of me I cannot get why a “non-believer” would want to live in a community with or anywhere near these people.
The judge will now decide which punishments to impose on the towns.
Spay and neuter the citizenry?
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NO! Really?!?!?
Authoritarian Male-Dominated Fundamentalist Breeding-Enclaves MAY have violated the Constitutional rights of people “not them”?
I’m Shocked! Shocked I tell you!
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Exactly they will just get another bunch to front for them…
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The subtitle of Christopher Hitchens’ 2007 book God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything is soooooooo’ spot on.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities ___ Voltaire
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Yeah GOP religious freedom @ its best.
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What’s the phrase? Oh yeah, “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
And government moochers as well.
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Just saw these clowns on tv whining about the government taking their religious freedom away…By prosecuting them for descriminating against the non-sheeple in their communities.
Finally! These Warren Jeff fools are nuts!
Yet, why would any sane person want to live in their community in the first place, when they don’t beleive their nonsense?
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I suspect because there isn’t official polygamy. There’s no law against a man keeping multiple women in his household and siring kids by them all, so long as he marries only one.
Maybe an inherited property or a bargain purchase, or one made without realizing the locals were crazy? Land is valuable, economically and often emotionally.
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If you like desert/canyon country, this part of Utah is beautiful—it’s pretty close to Zion NP.
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Indeed! We love to travel over to Kanaub, UT and from there Zion, Bryce, Lake Powell and the Grand Canyon are at your fingertips. Plus…the entire area around Kanaub is where so very many of the old western of the 40’s/60’s were filmed and its landscape is iconic.
(*Kanaub calls itself “The Greatest Earth on Show.” 
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The Bakers of Conscience will only do a wedding cake for you if it celebrates the union of one man and one woman. And another woman. And another woman. And another woman…
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Well, this is one good data-point in the discussion about why gay/lesbian marriage rights won’t translate to polygamous marriages anytime soon. One population generally supports expanded civil rights for all, while the other really just wants to live a fundamentalist lifestyle hearkening back to the glory days of the old testament.
At least we know there won’t be any argument from Kim Davis.
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How about those creepy prairie dresses that are made from mass-ordered bolts of cloth in only 3 solid colors for every XX carrier in town? And then there’s the hair with the ratted up over-forehead thing even for the baby. Want to take bets on if the girl holding the toddler is actually her mother? The Stepford Wives got nothing on this bunch.
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There is an interesting – if scary – documentary about Warren Jeffs: “Prophets Prey.” He was ultimately nailed for sex with an under-age girl.
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Been there?
Discriminated against nonbelievers?
Geez, 'ya fucking think?
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Not coincidentally!!!, many of the Malheur Oregon armed occupiers–“Doing God’s work!”–are from the same part of Utah and Arizona and are fundamentalist Mormons, though not necessarily polygamists. I’m pretty sure that Lavoy Finicum was a resident of either Colorado City or the abutting edge of the very next town.
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I can’t believe they actually shunned the nonbelievers.
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