A few more numbers while we wait
I just got back from Hastings Bookstore on Knickerbocker. A table near the front of the store has a whole pile of polygamy books: Under the Banner of Heaven, Escape, Stolen Innocence, When Men Become Gods, God's Brothel, Shattered Dreams.
Just two people stopped to browse through the selections, and I was one of them.
I've read all those books. But there was one title that caught my eye: Fanny Stenhouse: Expose of Polygamy. A Lady's Life Among the Mormons.
She launched the whole ex-plural wife genre, way back in 1872. The new book of excerpts from Fanny's diary was published by Utah State University Press. It was edited by Linda Wilcox DeSimone.
That's one I haven't read. I bought it. I am doing everything I can to help the local economy while I am here.
Any day now, I may declare residency. I've been promised a bottle of homemade barbeque sauce by a certain court clerk if I hang around long enough.
I wandered from the polygamy table over to a shelf of regional books. I pulled the Texas Alamanc 2008-2009 off the shelf and looked up Schleicher County.
The vital statistics for 2004 caught my eye:
Births: 39
Deaths: 36
Marriages: 14
Divorces: 15.
Looks like lasting relationships are on the downward trend in Schleicher County.
The YFZ Ranch was just getting going that year. . . .
Just two people stopped to browse through the selections, and I was one of them.
I've read all those books. But there was one title that caught my eye: Fanny Stenhouse: Expose of Polygamy. A Lady's Life Among the Mormons.
She launched the whole ex-plural wife genre, way back in 1872. The new book of excerpts from Fanny's diary was published by Utah State University Press. It was edited by Linda Wilcox DeSimone.
That's one I haven't read. I bought it. I am doing everything I can to help the local economy while I am here.
Any day now, I may declare residency. I've been promised a bottle of homemade barbeque sauce by a certain court clerk if I hang around long enough.
I wandered from the polygamy table over to a shelf of regional books. I pulled the Texas Alamanc 2008-2009 off the shelf and looked up Schleicher County.
The vital statistics for 2004 caught my eye:
Births: 39
Deaths: 36
Marriages: 14
Divorces: 15.
Looks like lasting relationships are on the downward trend in Schleicher County.
The YFZ Ranch was just getting going that year. . . .
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Any day now, I may declare residency.
You need to ask Willie where to get the Voter Registration applications!
You could have saved your money, Ms. Adams. Fanny's books are online free-of-charge on Google Books in .pdf format.
http://tinyurl.com/5x2zbw
She released a subsequent edition of the book titled, "Tell It All".
http://tinyurl.com/5x2zbw It is not as readable but is much more the expose.
I'm not sure what purpose the divorce statistics for Schleicher County might serve.
There's probably no doubt that holding women imprisoned and repressing their emotions, while mentally conditioning them from babyhood to think they can't get to Heaven without abject obedience to male authority, might contribute to lower divorce rates. Of course, there are also apt to be lower marriage rates, because the men are indulging themselves with virginal "young-thing" rewards on earth. That's while they keep the first wife(ves) in the back room on welfare and food stamps.
And before anyone says it, I'm sure this doesn't represent all FLDS relationships, but it would seem to demonstrate a clear pattern. Listen to the women speak on television and the major problems become evident. These are sick, demeaning, and destructive practices toward women and children.
There are some religions, like Catholicism(and, no, I'm not) that manage to keep divorce rates lower and allow women education, freedom, and choice, at the same time.
Sorry. This is the link for "Tell It All", Fanny Stenhouse's experience with Mormonism.
http://tinyurl.com/46e5ep
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What? No stats for the number of family reassignments in Schleicher County for 2004?
Darn.
I wonder what those numbers were in Mohave County and Washington County for that year.
LOL!!! The comment string for humor!
Judge Walthers: "Where is the physical harm?"
Womankine for the CPS: "...holding women imprisoned and repressing their emotions, while mentally conditioning them from babyhood to think they can't get to Heaven without abject obedience to male authority... demonstrate a clear pattern."
Judge Walthers: "Within that SINGLE HOUSEHOLD?"
Womankine for the CPS: "...before anyone says it, I'm sure this doesn't represent all FLDS relationships."
Attorneys for mothers: "We rest our case your dis-Honor"
Does Betty Lou evidence of any crimes to tell us about or was that humor also?
It's hardly humorous, kbp, that the FLDS "prophets" have the nasty habit of kicking men out of the cult and reassigning their entire family to another man.
If that isn't the ultimate example of women and children as chattel, I don't know what is.
Maybe bltl's point is that the FLDS have managed to come up with a practice even worse than divorce; one where children will lose their father forever as he is banished as an apostate.
Practices like this, along with kicking male children to the curb and forever shunning them, is what make the cries of outrage, regarding the current family separations, to be tempered with the perspective of reality of cruel FLDS life.
The only 'chattle' here womankine is you. You give the ladies (a term you may not recognize or comprehend) FAR LESS credit than is due.
Most of the women there are higher educated and more importantly, not as bigoted as you.
I class people like you into one group. That might be a mistake, but unlike you and Texas I am willing to admit a mistake.
That class you belong to is labeled BIGOTS.
chat·tel
1. Law. a movable article of personal property.
2. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
3. a slave.
It would be bigotry if I contended that every FLDS member participated in the documented practices of family reassignment and "lost boy" creation. Noting that these things are practiced in their society, does not a bigot make.
I have asked before for education stats for FLDS women, as you are not the first to assert that they are highly educated. Can you provide them, ramblings?
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