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    Image of deeemer deeemer
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    See that? The Face of Pure Evil. '

    The fact that he can sit there, with a straight face, and try that ludicrous defense is just indicative how how deluded he is, as well as enthralled with his own Jesus-complex. I wish that - occasionally - our justice system really did allow an "eye for an eye" for religious guys like this. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Would it be asking to much to have this creep's appendix explode violently? #warrenjeffs
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    Image of WriteChick WriteChick
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Yeah.....except the "girl" in question is a brave woman named Elissa Wall. She wrote a book about her struggle. And there is no question that Jeffs knew very much that the couple would be having sex after they "married."

    Elissa, by he own admission, tried to tell him several times that things weren't right because her husband and herself. But since she never had a sex education, all she could really say was "he's hurting me."

    Yeah, complete BS on his part.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    hahahahahaHA. riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Maybe if the Utah court is made up of chimps that argument might fly. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of TildeMarks TildeMarks
    11/05/09

    @bluebears: Sadly, I grew up in Utah, and well, it just might be. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    @TildeMarks: I was under the impression they REALLY hated polygamy, though, if only because it gives bad press to mainstream LDS. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    @alula: No, they just hate the bad press. Otherwise they turn a blind eye. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of JayBird JayBird
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    So...I have to ask: what's the age of consent in Utah? 3? #warrenjeffs
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    Image of vee vee
    11/05/09

    @JayBird: I know you were being facetious, but for anyone else wondering:
    "The age of consent in Utah is 18. It is however legal for minors aged 16 and 17 to engage in sexual activity with partners less than 10 years older."

    Source: [en.wikipedia.org] #warrenjeffs
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    Image of JayBird JayBird
    11/05/09

    @vee: :-) thank you! #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    @JayBird: No problem!
    On a side note-- Mexico's got an interesting age of consent (also on the same article)... it ranges anywhere from 12 to 18. 12! Unreal. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of HilliardTortoise HilliardTortoise
    11/05/09

    @vee: my great-grandmother was married and pregnant at 13. (Like Lorettta Lynn if I remember correctly.)
    The whole idea of teenaged fertile girls (and boys) being off-limits to adults (in holy matrimony at least)is a relatively new idea. Just sayin'.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    11/05/09

    @HilliardTortoise: Like women voting! Or marital rape! #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    @Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: Sing it Pizza. As if societal mores have not changed since our great-grandmothers time. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Quite obviously, Mr. Jeffs thought that the 14 year old girl would leap at the chance to have sex with her cousin/husband, become impregnated, and continue to increase the population of women on the compound who might also get the benefit of being married to family members who can't financially or emotionally support their polygamous families and who succeed in maintaining power only by brainwashing and under-educating the women and expelling men when there are too many.

    Isn't that every 14 year old girl's dream? #warrenjeffs
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    Image of Never_Nude Never_Nude
    11/05/09

    @sportz.star: It's like you read my 8th grade diary. Scary. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    It's like you can see the squiggly green waves of creepitude wafting off of him. And he's got the crazy-eyes. These two things alone should be enough to send him off to the gallows. Plus, y'know, the rape-enabling and forcing children into marriage thing. That too. But it's religion, so it's okay. Right.

    *attempts to stifle vomit-eruption*

    *fails*

    *horks* #warrenjeffs
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    11/05/09

    @Aesop's Foibles. YES.: also, i feel like, nose job? is that possible? like when he was in hiding he had plastic surgery to change his face? or is that just how his good lord made him, so that his creepiness could not be mistaken? #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    @J.D.Regent: I don't know, but I can say for sure that the very thought of what he could have been doing while "in hiding"......oh it's making me feel tossy again. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    What does this guy think happens in marriage? You just play Yatzee and go to bed in footie pajamas, never touching eachother? Why would you marry off a 14 year old, if it wasn't to get the person you are forcing her to marry to have sex?

    This man is a bag of hammers. #warrenjeffs
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Wait, if I told someone to go kill somebody else wouldn't I possibly be an accessory to murder even if I claimed I didn't know they would actually do it? How is he not an accessory to statutory here? #warrenjeffs
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    11/05/09

    @redqueenmeg: You bring up an excellent point against Operation Rescue. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11/05/09

    @Triana Orpheus: Them too! #warrenjeffs
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    Image of thatblackgirl thatblackgirl
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Ugh. Crap Excuse from a Dude. If the Utah Supreme Court falls for that, they deserve to be taken out and maimed. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of Sev Sev
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    "Be fruitful and multiply. And by that I mean grow fruit and distribute it amongst the people in our compound. What did you think I meant?" #warrenjeffs
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    Image of PandaGrrl PandaGrrl
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    See, we don't need to believe the fiction he tells to save his ass like"he didn't know the 14-year-old girl he married to her 19-year-old cousin would be forced to have sex." (Does that mean he thought she would want to have sex with her cousin?) He isn't our leader. Maybe he can get away with that nonsense with his disciples (?) but in the real world, Mr. Jeffs, we call bullshit. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of FrannyR FrannyR
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    So basically his defense is that he is an idiot without common sense or basic knowledge of human nature? Sure, I can buy that. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    I don't understand why marrying 14 year old off to a 19 year old is not accomplice to (statutory) rape on its face, whether the sex is forced or not. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of cantankasaurus rex cantankasaurus rex
    11/05/09

    @J.D.Regent: i'm assuming that it probably it statutory rape, but a "traditional" rape charge probably carries more time/consequences, so they went for that
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/05/09

    @J.D.Regent: well maybe because they didn't have sex until marriage? Can't you be underage and be married (with parental permission possibly)?

    *thinking back here. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of likepenguins likepenguins
    11/05/09

    In reply to Jeffs Told Girl "Be Fruitful And Multiply"
    Well, of course not. I've seen the depiction of marriage on comic strips and tv. They don't have sex; they just nag. #warrenjeffs
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    Image of MissMollyKate MissMollyKate
    11/05/09

    @likepenguins: I wish I could promote this. #warrenjeffs
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