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LTTE: Polygamy From A Modern Girl’s Perspective

May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Only in Utah...

The Salt Lake Trib’s letters to the editor often contain some interesting insights into life in Utah; I haven’t lived there for more than 30 years, and I feel I know the place because I can read the opinions of the cranks and the apologists and the activists and the completely whacked-out religious nutcases.
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Unnatural Natural Women

April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Only in Utah...

Say what you like about the religion, it’s not natural for women’s faces to be this lean. Even for nursing mothers, these women look like they’re not getting enough to eat. The one in the middle is becoming famous on Flickr for that monobrow, by the way. Their body language is weirdly out of [...]

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FLDS Polygamists: No Records of Births, Deaths, Abuse

April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts, Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them, Only in Utah..., Religion

One thing to remember: the FLDS compounds are as self-sufficient as possible. Medical care is handled “inhouse.” State mandated reporter laws for suspected abuse cases and records keeping: forget about it.
More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints | PEEK | AlterNet

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