Why I Visited Mesa Verde National Park Instead Of The Warren Jeffs Polygamy Compound

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"Powerful Mormons" is misleading. There is molly-coddling, but it's by federal and state officials who are responsible to prosecute the shadowy and slippery polygamists. Yes, many, if not most, of those officials in in the intermountain west are Latter-day Saints just because it's the single biggest denomination in the region. But there is no institutional or cultural sympathy among Mormons for the men who claim to live some supposed higher law by taking more than one "wife." It's adultery, is usually accompanied by fraud and abuse, is condemned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is notoriously difficult to prosecute.

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