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05-19-2008, 03:59 PM
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Anyone read this one? I am all for religious freedom among consenting adults, but have a lot of difficulty with it when it comes to young girls being married off to adult men. Read an Excerpt from Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall Last edited by jtee : 05-19-2008 at 04:09 PM. | ||
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05-19-2008, 04:13 PM
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Oh no...not another book ad... Just Kidding Jtee!!! I watched the entire Warren Jeffs trial on CourtTV way back, it was pretty weird how simple minded the adults are, some of them are like really polite 10 year olds, it really gave me an insight into FLDS and how shut off they are from the rest of the country...in one testimony the guy spoke so softly and nervously, honestly in the short testimony they had to tell him to speak up dozens of times, he would for a minute and then start mumbling again. | ||
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05-19-2008, 04:25 PM
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I understand, they truly believe that God has spoken to them and told them what is to be done. If God has told them that a 14 year old girl is to marry a man, then that is God's Will and there is nothing left to discuss. It is not that they secretly plan to do things they know are wrong and hide behind their religion, they truly believe that God has told them what to do. That is the nature of fundamentalist thinking in FLDS. | ||
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05-19-2008, 04:33 PM
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There is not a lot of free-thinkers in the FLDS, that's another thing I thought during the trial, it was like everybody was reading from the exact same script. The trial actually weirded me out so many times. And it was very hard for the pros. to get past their belief system, which in most cases was way out of whack with reality, but never did they budge from it. At one point I thought the pros. was about to leap over the desk and start slappin one guy silly yelling "are you listening to yourself?" | |||
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05-20-2008, 04:19 AM
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I haven't read it yet, but I've seen her on a few television interviews, and have the book on my list to check out at the library. I'm on the waiting list for it. She's a very strong young woman, in spite of, or because of, all that she's been through.
__________________  Wife to Barry Mother to Brian,Adrienne and Amy Christianity is not a religion like most people think. Christianity is a life of imitating Jesus. | ||
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05-20-2008, 06:13 AM
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I wanted to read that myself
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05-20-2008, 07:22 AM
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Isn't this the book that the attorneys were trying to get the release delayed due to pending trial?
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05-20-2008, 12:47 PM
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I planning on reading it very soon. For many years I was, more-or-less, anti-religion because of things like this, but as I sorted through it, I came to a better understanding that it is "fundamentalism" within any religion that is the cancer, not the religion. In the case of FLDS, this means adult men decide the fate of young girls who are born to parents that are member a fringe/fundamentalist branch of FLDS. Adult woman who join of their free will are making a choice to spiritually marry a man who already has other wives, young girls are not given a choice, they are told "God has spoken" and they are to do what God has commanded of them. A 13-14 year old girl has no options when that has been her life from day one. She does have options, she is just not aware of what those other options are. | ||
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05-20-2008, 01:57 PM
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The film footage CourtTV filmed during the trial was weird...they drove through the streets of their community with cameras rolling, mothers were grabbing their kids and racing them into the houses, slamming doors and drawing the curtains... you would think that aliens just landed, and everybody gave them "dagger eyes". Older males were chasing them with tractors and throwing things at them. So much for love thy neighbour eh? It was completely wierd. | ||
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