Lifesite News, headquartered in Toronto is being sued by Raymond Gravel, a Catholic priest and former MP (BQ-Repentigny). Brian Lilley at Lilley’s Pad has the most reasoned response I’ve found: Freedom of speech and lawsuits.
The B.C. government has applied to re-open the polygamy trial to present new evidence that parents in Bountiful smuggled young girls across the border to marry controversial fundamentalist leader Warren Jeffs.
In an affidavit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the attorney-general’s ministry says it last week received new information from a Texas prosecutor about the alleged child smuggling.
The prosecutor told B.C. officials that two 12-year-old girls from Bountiful were reportedly “celestially married” to Jeffs in 2005.
A girl only identified as “Child B” was driven by her father across the border to Short Creek, Arizona accompanied by the girl’s mother, for the purpose of the marriage, according to court documents.
The girl was then driven to Texas by an official of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
A second girl, identified as “Child C” was also driven by her father to Short Creek and then on to Texas by an FLDS official.
A third girl, identified as “Child A” was 13 years old when she was taken across the border and married to Jeffs in Arizona in 2004. Her parents participated in the wedding ceremony.
