VANCOUVER (CP) - It’s too early to say whether the U.S. arrest of a polygamous leader will have an impact in Canada on an investigation into the sect’s Bountiful, B.C. community, says an RCMP spokesman.
Sgt. John Ward said Warren Jeffs is not facing any charges in Canada, nor is he a suspect in the Mounties’ ongoing investigation in Bountiful, where allegations of child abuse surfaced years ago. Allegations of human trafficking, involving young girls being moved across U.S. borders and into Canada so they can be married off to older men, have also come up.
Jeffs’s sect is based in the state-line communities of Colorado City, Ariz. and Hildale, Utah, and he also has followers in Bountiful.
The self-proclaimed “speaker of God’s will” and leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is wanted in the two states on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages of underage girls. He is also wanted for fraud.
CP - Via Religion News Blog
I was walking home yesterday when I got stopped by a very polite guy offering me a video about Jesus. I said, “no thanks” and he accepted my brush off graciously. I turned around and asked him if he was Jehovah Witness, when I noticed the white shirt, black tie, short hair and name tag. He told me he was Mormon.
They show up when college and university starts here, and I wondered what he was doing miles from campus on a hot street. This is the second time I’ve had a Mormon missionary approach me in this area, and it’s quite odd to see them. While people here are kind, I don’t see their missionary work being well spent, at least not in the section of town he stopped me in.
Bountiful is a polygamist town in British Columbia of about 10 thousand. Young girls have been brought across the border to be brides of Warren Jeff and Warren Blackmore.
A falling out between the two leaders has split the town in two, relatives shun relatives.
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If we let this guy get away with crimes under the name of religion, then the abuse cases of the Catholic priests should be named a religious experience and leave it at that. Crime is crime, no matter within or without a religious heading over it. Sex with a minor is a crime. This is why Waco happened, because some nut job wants society to operate his way, and don’t you know, it usually involves teenage girls? Women aren’t supposed to be treated like this in an industrialized nation, we are supposed to have gotten past this kind of sexist treatment. Hypothetical: Why not marry 4 or 5 men to one woman? Why not marry the boys off at age 13 or 14? Why not put men in the house under wraps and not let them get educated or socialized, and make them keep the tempatation of their masculinity under layers of cloth? Rope it all under a religious name and call it ordained. But no, the reality is just the same old thing of men abusing their women and their power yet again for their personal gratification. That is what Jeffs and his “religion” boils down to.