As pressure builds for Canadian authorities to investigate the polygamous town of Bountiful in British Columbia, one of the settlement's leaders is speaking out.In an exchange of e-mails with the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Winston Blackmore, the leader of more than half the polygamists in Bountiful, says he is angered by Texas' decision last month to remove 463 children from their parents at an FLDS ranch near San Angelo. But he also blames FLDS leader Warren Jeffs for the children's trauma.
I do not like what the state of Texas has done to those people, and strongly urge them to get the children back to their mothers. The children have already been traumatized by their church and now the state. Oh, God, how much more suffering can the children stand?
Jeffs, the jailed leader of the FLDS who make up about 40 percent of Bountiful's polygamists, was convicted in Utah on accessory to rape charges. Blackmore says Jeffs "has ruined hundreds of families of men who were in our faith":Most of the people in the Texas compound are the spoils of ruined and ransacked families taken by Warren and those faithful to his new teachings.
Blackmore, who has at least 20 wives, may have his own problems with Canadian authorities.
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Blackmore's plural wives' marriages are bygamy and illegal in Canada, therefore they face deportation and their children would be taken by Canada's child services.
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