While the Republicans like Orrin Hatch say Fundie Mormon Polygamists are "fine people" and refuse to help abused girls leave the Polygamy/Rape/Incest/Inbreeding Communities, the Democrats are helping raise the law for marriages to illegal minors from 30 DAYS to a First-Degree Felony, punishable up to 15 years.
Utah State Senator Ron Allen -DEMOCRAT!
DEMOCRATS: Saving America from Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy!
REPUBLICANS: Making America unsafe for all-non polygamy communities, and supporting the hidden POLYGAMY AGENDA. INCLUDING PRESIDENT BUSH, Who buddies up to Polygamy Lovers like Orrin Hatch and Mike Leavitt new HHS Secretary. Bush even appoints Polygamy Supporters to his Cabinet (Leavitt met several times with Fred Jessop, notorious polygamist, to get his support for his gubernatorial run in the 80s)
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/01/19/news/regional/90119c6c532419e187256f8e0008dd1d.
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SENTATOR: POLYGAMY NO LAUGHING MATTER
By PAUL FOY
Associated Press writer
SALT LAKE CITY -- Polygamy can bring snickers, but it's no laughing matter, says a state senator who on Tuesday dropped copies of the book "God's Brothel" on Utah legislators' desks.
Democratic state Sen. Ron Allen said he wants to dispel the notion that polygamy in Utah is only "anecdotal -- or even humorous." Thousands in Utah, members of breakaway Mormon factions, quietly practice polygamy, although it has been illegal for more than a century.
The book is an indictment of polygamy written by Andrea Moore-Emmett, president of the Utah chapter of the National Organization for Women. She compiled stories from 18 women who escaped from polygamous marriages or families and told of rape, incest, orgies and violence.
"I'm passing this out with no grand agenda. I simply want legislators to have more background on the problem," said Allen. The books were donated by the publisher, Pince-Nez Press of San Francisco, he said.
Allen, the Senate's Democratic whip, helped enact a child bigamy law in 2003 that made forced marriages of minors a second-degree felony punishable by one to 15 years in prison.
Before, the offense carried only 30 days in jail and was rarely enforced, said Allen. He said the marrying of teenage girls was a common practice among some of Utah's isolated polygamist communities, until the state served notice it was cracking down.
"Several sermons have been given in these communities admonishing men not to take child brides," he said.
No one has been prosecuted under the new child bigamy law, but Allen said he was satisfied by a handful of prosecutions for adult polygamy, and authorities including Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff are trying to help young women escape the subculture.
Allen said he believed Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was preparing to lead his flock from Utah because of the crackdown. Jeffs and his agents have been buying ranches in west Texas and Colorado.
Jeffs presides over the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., a jumble of unfinished houses on dirt streets, where men have multiple wives and dozens of children, who supply cheap labor for business.
Show this to your Freeper Family members and Evangelicals and remind them: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.