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Polygamist Mormon Sects

Canada this time.

Two former bishops guilty of polygamy involving isolated sect in Bountiful, B.C.
Published Monday, Jul. 24, 2017 4:12PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2017 8:30AM EDT

Winston Blackmore was making no apologies Monday after he and another former bishop of an isolated religious community in British Columbia were found guilty of practising polygamy.

“I’m guilty of living my religion and that’s all I’m saying today because I’ve never denied that,” Blackmore told reporters after a judge announced a verdict against him and co-defendant James Oler.

“Twenty-seven years and tens of millions of dollars later, all we’ve proved is something we’ve never denied,” Blackmore said. “I’ve never denied my faith. This is what we expected.”

Blackmore, 60, was married to Jane Blackmore and then married 24 additional women as part of so-called “celestial” marriages involving residents in the tiny community of Bountiful.

Oler, 53, had five wives.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan said the “collective force of the evidence” proved the guilt of both men, who were practising members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect that believes in plural marriage. ...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new.../+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
 
Polygamy over a long period leads to inbreeding resulting in genetic problems.

The polygamous town facing genetic disaster

In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. The reason? Here, polygamy is still practised.

26 July 2017

“We are to gird up our loins and fulfil this, just as we would any other duty…” said Brigham Young, who led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), or Mormons, back in the mid-19th Century. It was a sweltering summer’s day in Provo City, Utah and as he spoke, high winds swirled dust around him.

The holy task Young was speaking of was, of course, polygyny, where one man takes many wives. He was a passionate believer in the practice, which he announced as the official line of the church a few years earlier. Now he was set to work reassuring his flock that marrying multiple women was the right thing to do.

He liked to lead by example. Though Young began his adult life as a devoted spouse to a single wife, by the time he died his family had swelled to 55 wives and 59 children.

Fast-forward to 1990, a century after polygyny was abandoned, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year-old boy was presented to Theodore Tarby, a doctor specialising in rare childhood diseases.

The boy had unusual facial features, including a prominent forehead, low-set ears, widely spaced eyes and a small jaw. He was also severely physically and mentally disabled.

In every case, the child had the same distinctive facial features, the same delayed development

After performing all the usual tests, Tarby was stumped. He had never seen a case like it. Eventually he sent a urine sample to a lab that specialises in detecting rare diseases. They diagnosed “fumarase deficiency”, an inherited disorder of the metabolism. With just 13 cases known to medical science (translating into odds of one in 400 million), it was rare indeed. It looked like a case of plain bad luck. ...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170726-the-polygamous-town-facing-genetic-disaster?ocid=twfut
 
ramonmercado said:
Polygamy over a long period leads to inbreeding resulting in genetic problems.
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The other problem with polygamy that's not discussed is the high level of male-on-male violence among those who don't manage to get even one wife, never mind more than one.
 
Coal said:
The other problem with polygamy that's not discussed is the high level of male-on-male violence among those who don't manage to get even one wife, never mind more than one.
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That's probably the real reason why it isn't more widely adopted among most populations.
 
Mythopoeika said:
That's probably the real reason why it isn't more widely adopted among most populations.
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You might then argue that monogamy exists because it combines the widest distribution of mates for both genders with the minimum amount of conflict.
 
Another Jeffs behind bars.

A former leader of a breakaway polygamous Mormon sect has been given a nearly five-year sentence for fraud and fleeing house arrest in Utah.

Lyle Jeffs admitted to orchestrating what authorities have called the nation's largest scheme to defraud the federal food benefits programme.

He was arrested in June after nearly a year on the run and has pleaded guilty.

His brother and former Mormon leader Warren Jeffs was jailed in 2011 on child sexual assault charges.

Warren Jeffs, the former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was found guilty of forcing two underage girls into "spiritual marriage" and fathering a child with one of them when she was 15.

Lyle Jeffs, a former FLDS bishop, told a federal judge in Salt Lake City on Wednesday that he "humbly and respectfully say I acknowledge my mistakes and decision-making".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42346118
 
But will their multiple wives be at home?

TORONTO - Two British Columbia men were sentenced to house arrest on Tuesday for having multiple wives, a lawyer for one of the men said, in what CBC News reported was Canada's first convictions for polygamy in more than a century.

Winston Blackmore and James Oler were sentenced to six and three months of house arrest, respectively, the lawyer said. They were convicted on one count of polygamy each last July.


Both men are former bishops of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect within Bountiful, a religious community in southeastern British Columbia.

http://www.asiaone.com/world/2-canada-polygamy-sect-leaders-sentenced-house-arrest
 
I wonder if there is a darker secret behind this?

The massacre of three mothers and six children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico has prompted shock and anguish on both sides of the border.

The three women, in their 30s and 40s, were travelling with their 14 children in three separate SUVs in convoy along dirt roads near the town of Bavispe in the state of Sonora on Monday when they were gunned down. One car also set on fire. Two twin babies, a ten-year-old girl and three boys, aged three, 11 and 12 were killed. Six other injured children were airlifted to hospital in Tucson, Arizona. One child, aged 13, reportedly walked 14 miles to get help.

The victims, all dual US-Mexican citizens, are part of the LeBaron family and wider community of La Mora, an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

The fundamentalist Mormon community in Mexico was established in the late 19th century, after the US government outlawed polygamy in 1885. Roughly 4,000 Mormons eventually made the journey to the northern Mexican provinces of Chihuahua and Sonora, which border Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. ...

This is not the first time the family has come into conflict with the gangs. In 2009, 16-year-old Eric LeBaron was kidnapped, and $1m was demanded to free him. The Mormons refused, and Eric was released. The boy’s brother, Benjamin LeBaron, spoke out against organised crime, going on to consult with local groups against the cartels, as an activist. In response, LeBaron and his brother-in-law were taken from their homes and murdered. ...

https://www.theweek.co.uk/104205/why-was-a-mormon-family-massacred-in-mexico
 
ramonmercado said:
I wonder if there is a darker secret behind this?

The massacre of three mothers and six children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico has prompted shock and anguish on both sides of the border.

The three women, in their 30s and 40s, were travelling with their 14 children in three separate SUVs in convoy along dirt roads near the town of Bavispe in the state of Sonora on Monday when they were gunned down. One car also set on fire. Two twin babies, a ten-year-old girl and three boys, aged three, 11 and 12 were killed. Six other injured children were airlifted to hospital in Tucson, Arizona. One child, aged 13, reportedly walked 14 miles to get help.

The victims, all dual US-Mexican citizens, are part of the LeBaron family and wider community of La Mora, an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

The fundamentalist Mormon community in Mexico was established in the late 19th century, after the US government outlawed polygamy in 1885. Roughly 4,000 Mormons eventually made the journey to the northern Mexican provinces of Chihuahua and Sonora, which border Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. ...

This is not the first time the family has come into conflict with the gangs. In 2009, 16-year-old Eric LeBaron was kidnapped, and $1m was demanded to free him. The Mormons refused, and Eric was released. The boy’s brother, Benjamin LeBaron, spoke out against organised crime, going on to consult with local groups against the cartels, as an activist. In response, LeBaron and his brother-in-law were taken from their homes and murdered. ...

https://www.theweek.co.uk/104205/why-was-a-mormon-family-massacred-in-mexico
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Police involved?

The police chief of a small town in Mexico has been arrested in connection with a massacre that left nine people dead after an ambush in the state of Sonora on Nov. 4, multiple outlets reported Friday.

Federal authorities have reportedly arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief of the town of Janos in Chihuahua, Mexico, as part of their investigation into the murders. On Nov. 4, six women and three children from a Mormon community with ties to the U.S. were shot and burned to death during a roadside attack while driving in a caravan to the United States, according to authorities.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mexican-police-chief-arrested-lebaron-mormon-massacre_n_5e08df66e4b0b2520d170e3c
 
That is uncalled for.
 
Most religious people are guilty of living their religion.
 
Xanatic* said:
Most religious people are guilty of living their religion.
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But some of the poly mormons are into guns, child brides, preparing for armageddon.

Oler who you cite was convicted of polygamy, he has 5 wives, his co-defendant Blackmore has 24 wives and has fathered 146 children. Their behaviour would not be out of place in ISIS.
 
Another prophet.

The leader of small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them under-age, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, court documents have claimed.

Samuel Bateman, 46, was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) until he left to start his own small offshoot group. He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children to be Bateman’s wives, according to the FBI.

The court document provides new insight about what investigators have found in a case that first became public in August. It accompanied charges of kidnapping and impeding a foreseeable prosecution against three of Bateman’s wives – Naomi Bistline, Donnae Barlow and Moretta Rose Johnson.

Bistline and Barlow are scheduled to appear in court in Flagstaff on Wednesday. Johnson is awaiting extradition from Washington state.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41023277.html
 
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