Christian Polygamy

Bountiful leaders in court on polygamy charges

Joshuah — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:56:31 +0000

Two fundamentalist Mormon leaders from Bountiful, B.C., are scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on polygamy charges. Winston Blackmore and James Oler have yet to enter a plea. Blackmore, 52, is the former bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Bountiful. Oler, 44, is the current bishop, who replaced [...]

Dispute Over Polygamous Sect Property Trust Argued Before Utah Supreme Court

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:52:43 +0000

Utah’s highest court weighed in on the long running dispute over a polygamous sect’s property trust Wednesday with one central question: Why did sect members wait so long to challenge a judge’s decision to remove the trust’s religious foundation? Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints claim their Constitutional rights were [...]

Audio, Photos: Picturing Polygamy In America

Joshuah — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:54 +0000

…photographer Stephanie Sinclair, with the help of National Geographic, somehow convinced the insular FLDS to let her in with a camera — perhaps because the FLDS wanted to show that there’s more to their religion than what you see on HBO. Sinclair spent more than a year documenting small communities in the American West and [...]

Polygamist Winston Blackmore sues B.C. for unlawful prosecution

Joshuah — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:23:48 +0000

A B.C. religious leader who was charged with polygamy last year is suing the provincial government for damages due to “unlawful” prosecution. The charges against Winston Blackmore, one of two warring leaders of a fundamentalist Mormon sect in the Bountiful community of southeastern B.C., were quashed in September. In his lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme [...]

Canadians: Abortion, fornication, gambling morally acceptable, reject polygamy as immoral

Joshuah — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:49:19 +0000

If this isn’t screwed up I don’t know what is. Polygyny is a form of marriage, people. A large proportion of Canadians believe certain specific social behaviours are morally acceptable, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion published in Maclean’s. At least 79 per cent of respondents feel this way about contraception, sexual [...]

Meddling Christians

Joshuah — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:08:23 +0000

What do you tell a person who has been living happily in a polygynous relationship as the second wife, has two small children, and now all of a sudden has to separate from her husband and sister wife because the hitherto happy family has realized, no doubt with the help of their Christian friends, that [...]

Jealousy and Polygamy

Joshuah — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:55:07 +0000

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.” (Gen [...]

Sister, Where Art Thou ?

Joshuah — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:49:33 +0000

I set up a new blog today titled “Sister, Where Art Thou ?”. If you are interested in knowing more about us, possibly thinking about joining our family even, Sister, Where Art Thou ? is the place to go. You will find information about us, like what is most important for us, what life looks [...]

Survival on Joshuah’s House

Joshuah — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:21:53 +0000

We have been pondering survival in many ways over the past year or so, and on several of our sites, but very recently thought it might be an interesting topic for our esteemed readers of Joshuah’s House too. So we wrote a little bit about the basics of survival (Survive !) and also about polygyny [...]

Polygamy and the Bible

Joshuah — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:18:16 +0000

This post is for those of you, should you exist, who wish to comment on the most recent addition to JoshuahsHouse.com, entitled Polygamy and the Bible. http://joshuahshouse.com/polygamy-and-the-bible.html

THE ORTHODOX JEWISH PRO POLYGAMY PAGE

Joshuah — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:46:21 +0000

An interesting look at “christian” opposition to polygyny. Source: THE ORTHODOX JEWISH PRO POLYGAMY PAGE CHRISTIAN OPPOSITION TO POLYGAMY Christian commentators with a perverted perspective following in the Roman Catholic tradition have tremendous difficulty with Yaakov having four wives. This very point shows to what extent the Roman church is not a continuation of Jewish [...]

Texas Authorities Seek Custody of Polygamist Sect’s Children Again

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:35:56 +0000

FOXNews.com More than two months after being forced to return children from a polygamist sect to their parents, Texas child welfare authorities want eight youngsters put back in foster care. Individual hearings for the four mothers of the children, who range in age from 5 to 17, are set to begin Monday. Child Protective Services [...]

FLDS hearing held in closed court

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:35:54 +0000

Source: Deseret News Lawyers for a member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church may be trying to prevent that person from testifying before a grand jury investigating crimes within the polygamous sect. A hearing on a motion to quash a subpoena was held behind closed doors here on Friday. Little else is known about what happened [...]

Court lets CPS end oversight of 34 FLDS children

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:35:52 +0000

Source: Houston Chronicle A West Texas judge on Friday agreed to end court oversight of 34 children from a polyamist group. Child Protective Services indicated last week that it would no longer pursue legal action against the parents of 34 children because the agency felt they were not in immediate danger. On Friday, State District [...]

Polygamy is the key to a long life

Joshuah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:34:23 +0000

Source: New Scientist Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous [...]

Judge Orders FLDS Girl Back into Foster Care

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:50 +0000

Source: News Radio 1200 WOAI San Antonio Texas A judge in San Angelo ruled this afternoon that a 14 year old girl who was ’spiritually married’ to Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ‘prophet’ Warren Jeffs when she was 12 must be taken away from her mother and placed into foster care, [...]

Mother mum in polygamy custody case

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:50:34 +0000

Source: CNN.com The mother of a girl allegedly given in marriage at age 12 to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs refused to answer questions Monday from attorneys for the state.Warren Jeffs and four followers were indicted in Texas last month for sexual assault of a child. Warren Jeffs and four followers were indicted in Texas [...]

Ex-husband of teen bride could face trial in Utah

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:37:32 +0000

Source: KXAN.com The ex-husband of a teen bride who helped convict polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on counts of rape by accomplice — could face trial. Allen Glade Steed is charged in Utah with one count of first-degree felony rape for his sexual relationship with Elissa Wall after the couple married in a 2001 religious [...]

Current number of cases against FLDS is unknown

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:37:30 +0000

Source: Salt Lake Tribune While Texas authorities were initially investigating 20 cases of sexual assault and 50 bigamy cases involving FLDS members, it is unclear how many of those cases remain open four months later. Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange confirmed the number of cases – outlined in an April e-mail – [...]

Texas widens FLDS probe

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:37:29 +0000

The modern Pharisee had a few words to say about all of this…check it out. Source: Deseret News Texas Rangers are investigating 20 cases of sexual assault and about 50 bigamy charges involving members of the FLDS Church, the Deseret News has learned. Texas officials on Monday confirmed the number of open cases but would [...]