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more about #yearningforzion more comments → prettycool: I'm sure it was that hard-hitting interview with Oprah that made them reflect over their actions. yeah... more » lalaland13: OK ladies. This is it. We need to open up a Jezebel compound next door to these crazies. We may not be able to do anything for these poor women and gi... more » Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: Wait, they never admitted in the first place that there were any forced underaged polygamy. more » PaintedTrollop: Oh, what a load of shit. These people will lie through their inbred teeth to protect their right to rape in the name of the prophet. The millions they... more » morninggloria: Wives are naggy! Teenagers are whiney! Why anyone would want to subject themselves to multiple naggy whiners is beyond me. more » CurtCole: I kind of doubt that a fundamentalist church is going to do an about face because Child Protective Services slapped them on the wrist. Most of these c... more » The HZA.: I don't see how a group that has been this way for so long just changing that rapidly. It'd be nice to think that there is some realization going on. ... more » tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I find it hard to believe they've had an honest change of heart. This isn't some small tenant of their every day lives, like, say, the rule about only... more » pear.shaped.Sara: What did they put in that welfare agent's drink when she visited the ranch? *eyes narrow suspiciously* more » Samanthrax: Yay! Don't worry, everyone. They'll only have to wait a few short years 'til they can marry the 40 year old guy with 5 other wives of their dreams and... more » hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: that's like when an abusive boyfriend says he'll never hit you again. they may even mean it, but its in their nature. i think those people all need to... more » Trulymadlyme: I can see the leader's rationale on getting girls to fake thier ages: Children, this isn't a fake ID. This driver's license contains your spiritual bi... more » Santos L Halper: I agree that her assessment was probably VERY optimistic. Won't people say pretty much anything the authorities want to hear in order to get their ki... more » PreposterousHypothesis: I doubt they're giving it up. It's engrained into their culture and their religious philosophy. You know how those pompadours stay so high? They're fu... more » Eleanor Ramilly: How could they have realized this? It seems like something that would have to be unlearned through generations. I hate to think they are just saying w... more » -
#childbrides
Have Polygamists Had A Change Of Heart On Underage Marriage?
A Texas child welfare official testified on Tuesday regarding her department's raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch, "The action we took, I believe, has changed the behavior of this organization." More » -
#biglove
262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch
Well 2008 is finally ending and what better (read: horrible) way to wind down the year than with an update about our friends from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? -
