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Topic: woman from polygamous compound on Dr. Phil

Topic Posted by: Elie
Date Posted: Wed Apr 23 0:02:19 2008
Additional Comments: The woman said that she escaped from the compound with her mother and seven siblings when she was thirteen. According to their church, men have the right to kill their wives who escape. The woman said that her father's other wives talked him out of it.

Tomorrow the show will be about the boys, (teenagers), who are kicked out. One boy said that he was give 800 dollars and he spent it on alcohol.

I read that about one thousand boys were kicked out. They spend their money on alcohol and drugs.

Posted by: Kate
Date posted: Wed Apr 23 12:34:54 2008
Message:

I know there's a legit reason, but it seems as if there should be some arresting going on. IMO, any man with more than 1 wife (others are illegal) should be arrested for bigamy.

Wouldn't that be a way to discourage their thirst for multiple matrimony?

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Yes, but how do they arrest them if it is only a 'spiritual' marriage and not a legal one? I doubt they can do that.

Yeah, I think they can only charge them with bigamy if they try to file joint tax returns or more than one marriage license. No one else would probably care!....eom

So basically these are not wholesome families who are just practicing their *religious right* to multiple marriage. In reality, these are just men who have one legal wife/family.....plus a whole lotta girlfriends and illegitimate children. Funny, how they know how to get around bigamy charges by calling the 2nd, 3rd etc. marriages *spiritual unions*, but still manage to preserve the *righteousness* of it all. They should call themselves what they really are.....married cheaters who have gotten their mistresses pregnant....then let them file for welfare benefits.

Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Wed Apr 23 8:44:49 2008
Message:
I understand running off a certain percentage of the boys is a routine practice in polygamy. Can't have an even ratio of boys to girls or those old perverts won't have a harem. I've also read that it's not uncommon for young people who leave the compound to go hog wild with their new-found freedom and embrace the opposite extreme (alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, stripping, even prostitution). Just goes to show you can't legislate morality.