August 23, 2006

Polygamists hold rally in Salt Lake City in which mostly teens defend their polygynous upbringing and desire to enter into polygynous marriages.

The rally was organized by the Principle Voices organization which is run by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter day Saints. Despite coverage on mulitiple news outlets including CNN (video), no one seems to mention that they have a habit of kicking young boys out of their community in order to ensure there are fewer men around to share the women and that their leader, Warren Jeffs, is one of America's Most Wanted... That's good reportering there boys...

posted by jccalhoun 18 years ago
  • What? No polyandrists?
  • And for those of you who don't know, Krakauer is the shit.
  • What? No polyandrists? See, that's not what God wants. Like two dudes? Yecch. Unholy. But two of the ladies? Well, that's what Jesus would do!
  • Jesus had, like, 12 husbands.
  • And for the record: I DON'T SHARE. Get your own dozen men.
  • Solomon had 2000 wives. He was on born on a Wed-nesday.
  • What? No polyandrists? nunia, you took the comment right out of my keyboard!
  • wasn't most polyandry also shit for the women? It was just two or more schmoes, often brothers, who couldn't afford to buy exclusive usufruct of a woman-chattel wasn't it? What you really want is the walking marriage of the Mosuo
  • I find it sad that these kids haven't seen or can't see the damage being done to them. It's like some bizarre Stockholm syndrome.
  • I've read Into Thin Air, I hadn't realized he'd written on the LDS fundamentalists. I'd always thought of him as a mountaineering writer.
  • nunia, you made me laugh at the end of a really lousy day. Thanks!
  • That said, the story of all of the "lost boys" is really, really sad... as is the lives of the girls who are stuck in these communities.
  • I've read Into Thin Air, I hadn't realized he'd written on the LDS fundamentalists. I'd always thought of him as a mountaineering writer. He also wrote one called Into the Wild about a kid who decides to walk away from his life and live (and die) in the wilderness of Alaska. nunia, you took the comment right out of my keyboard! When you touch your [mon]keys, you're touching me. nunia, you made me laugh at the end of a really lousy day. Thanks! You are not allowed to have lousy days. I will not permit it! And yeah, those boys have it rough, being expelled from the community, but at least they aren't stuck in the culture like the females are. Stockholm Syndrome is right, especially when your captors are your parents.
  • Do vasectomies and hysterectomies prevent abductions by aliens mormons? We could only wish. Can't we put something in the water to stop them from breeding? Shakers were good folk, nice to have around, and they died out. Then there's these idiots.
  • I bought sweet corn and onions today from Mennonites. Not at all related to anything in this thread, but I felt I had to share something. And like Gramma said about Shakers, they're good to have around. Fresh eggs for $1.25 a dozen? At a self-serve farm stand where you take what you need and leave money in a box on the honor system? It's a nice change
  • He also wrote one called Into the Wild about a kid who decides to walk away from his life and live (and die) in the wilderness of Alaska. Thanks for that, nunia. A good friend of mine was very affected by Into the Wild and talked about it for quite some time. I'd never realized that Krakauer had written it.
  • Shakers were good folk, nice to have around, and they died out. That's what happens when you don't believe in sex.
  • is this an appropriate thread in which to recall the greatest monkeyfilter comment ever made?? it's a vagina, not a clown car sorry for lack of credit but I forget offhand which brilliant monk is responsible for this gem and I'm too lazy to search
  • I'm not so sure it was appropriate in the first thread!
  • That was EarWax, if memory serves.
  • WOw check out who's on top on a JesusGoogle. Intarwebs, eh?
  • Hey, they caught Warren Jeffs today. I guess he got caught because his car didn't have a registration tag on it.
  • Yeah, I just finished Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, and Mr. Jeffs is not painted in a very favorable light (but then, neither is the rest of Mormanism). The book is just jaw-dropping. By the time you get to the end of it, you're so jaded about how evil this religion is that you're nonplussed. You could stand outside of a Scientologist building while being bull-baited and yawn like it's Oprah. Polygamy is weird (and the fundamentalist doctrine states that it's not optional; you absolutely are required to have more than one wife, or you're damned). And don't even get me started on blood atonement. That's some messed-up shit. In an eerie coincidence, I'll be camping out at the north rim of the Grand Canyon this weekend, dangerously close to Colorado City. Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for me, my fellow monkeys, that His Noodley Appendage will wrap around me and protect me from religious weirdos.
  • Sorry, nunia, I'm a Mothra man.
  • I was counting on you, Capt. You were my greatest hope. *rends clothes, rubs ashes into hair*