Saturday, October 14, 2006

Don Miller: False prophets: Why polygamists believe they're doing God's will
I'm mostly and blissfully ignorant of strange religious offshoots that seem to occur in out-of-the-way locales, usually featuring a few seemingly crazed fanatics putting their own particular, often legalistic, spin on some religious doctrine or tenet.

That's why I've passed right by recent headlines about the arrest of a notorious polygamist sect leader, Warren Jeffs, who had been a fugitive for nearly two years, and is currently in a Utah jail cell awaiting trial.

Jeffs is charged with two counts of rape for forcing a teenage girl to enter a "spiritual marriage" with an older man and to submit to sex in order to give birth to children.

When the girl told Jeffs she didn't want to marry or have sex, the fundamentalist leader told her it was her duty as a church member to submit to his authority because the marriage was ordained by God.
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