They’re not Sudanese refugees trying to make a new start. They’re blond, blue-eyed superfluous males from communities that are run more like a pride of lions or a troop of baboons than a town.

Shurtleff helps revive ‘lost boys’ bill

Legislation billed as a way to help youths evicted from polygamous homes – known as the “lost boys” – died in a Senate logjam last year. On Wednesday, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Judiciary Interim Committee the bill, which would allow a judge to emancipate a minor at age 16, is among his top priorities. Shurtleff said hundreds of young men need help after being cast out by their polygamous families in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. The two towns are populated with members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). The youths are persecuted for their behavior or forced out as competition for older men seeking plural wives, Shurtleff said. They often don’t want to see their parents prosecuted.

I just figured out what must be the collective noun for these groups: a plurality of polygamists.