Sunday, April 20, 2008

Polygamy of the Prairie


Everyone's talking about it. It's like the HBO show "Big Love" has decided to become REAL and is now playing out on every news channel, everywhere.

Todd Lewan had a good article on the AP Wire, where he is a National Writer today, that ran in our local Sunday News. It described how a west Texas hunting ground became ground zero for the controversial religious splinter group known as YFZ, part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. What I recommend is reading the Jon Krakauer's UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN: A story of Violent Faith. Excellent book and it really chronicles the history of these Fundamentalists groups. I read the book after driving across country and noticing these small enclaves in the middle of nowhere in Arizona and Utah and then it all made sense.

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