tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post86331552100519624..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Book investigating Mormon polygamy suggests prohibition enables sect leaders to commit sex crimesPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-54712396428616886362024-03-24T12:23:36.306-07:002024-03-24T12:23:36.306-07:00Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to ...Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children<br /><br />By JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press March 19, 2024<br /><br />PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be Perry Bulwerhttps://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52569689394925147872016-01-15T15:49:06.647-08:002016-01-15T15:49:06.647-08:00When I turned 14, my mom and Lane pulled me out of...When I turned 14, my mom and Lane pulled me out of school to help with the house and kids full time. One day, I found my brother Micah and stepbrother Junior hanging dead on a barbed-wire fence. Lane had been wiring electricity to another wife’s house, and the boys had been electrocuted. I screamed in horror. My mother came running out.<br /><br />“Do not touch the fence!” I yelled. But she did.<Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-58689156645411492672016-01-15T15:48:58.699-08:002016-01-15T15:48:58.699-08:00I grew up with 41 siblings in a polygamist cult
B...I grew up with 41 siblings in a polygamist cult<br /><br />By Dana Schuster New York Post January 14, 2016 <br /><br />You may have watched television shows about it, but few have experienced the brutality and sexism of some cults firsthand. Ruth Wariner has. The 43-year-old grew up in a polygamist colony in Mexico where she had more than 40 siblings. Wariner, whose new memoir, “The Sound of Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-91923090465097454532016-01-15T15:37:09.292-08:002016-01-15T15:37:09.292-08:00...words that had held such power throughout my ch...<i>...words that had held such power throughout my childhood, words that had characterized our way of life, words that had defined me, my siblings, my mom—they meant nothing to me. All the preaching, all the hours in church memorizing scriptures, how could that mean anything when the community supporting it wouldn't defend the innocence and safety of a child?</i> <br /> <br />She called her Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-39426493255061315432016-01-15T15:36:42.562-08:002016-01-15T15:36:42.562-08:00Wariner and her moms other children were carted ba...Wariner and her moms other children were carted back and forth between Mexico and El Paso, Texas, where they'd collect their mom's welfare checks. Every trip across the border into the States brought waves of anxiety.<br /><br />"Whenever I went across the border, you never knew what was going to come," she says. "We learned that the destruction was going to come from the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6191287969651528832016-01-15T15:33:18.173-08:002016-01-15T15:33:18.173-08:00How I Escaped From a Polygamist Cult
Ruth Wariner...How I Escaped From a Polygamist Cult<br /><br />Ruth Wariner's dad was her religion's prophet. When she was a teenager, she finally broke free.<br /> <br />By Kate Storey Cosmopolitan January 8, 2016<br /> <br />When Ruth Wariner walked into her first day of elementary school in Chihuahua, Mexico, she didn't know a soul and couldn't speak the language. She'd grown up Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-68560805005996841292014-11-09T15:24:54.819-08:002014-11-09T15:24:54.819-08:00Second for reasons not stated, the essays fail to ...Second for reasons not stated, the essays fail to mention, even in endnotes, some of the most important scholarship on Mormon polygamy. These omissions include, but are not limited to: Martha Bradley and Mary Woodward’s Four Zinas: A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier (Signature Books, 2000), a ground-breaking study of women and polygamy; Lawrence Foster’s Religion and Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-86701137158891900012014-11-09T15:24:43.546-08:002014-11-09T15:24:43.546-08:00Smith polygamy essays commendable, but still not t...Smith polygamy essays commendable, but still not the full story<br /><br />By Gary James Bergera, Op-ed Salt Lake Tribune November 03 2014<br /> <br />The LDS Church’s publication of essays on its practice of plural marriage represents a good first step in acknowledging the history of the controversial doctrine (see Peggy Fletcher Stack, "New Mormon Essay: Joseph Smith Married Teens, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-85094763147175790852013-06-07T15:43:27.511-07:002013-06-07T15:43:27.511-07:00Life as a polygamous wife
At the age of 17, Decke...Life as a polygamous wife<br /><br />At the age of 17, Decker married an independent polygamist who was 24, not of the Allred group, a first marriage for both of them.<br /><br />“Even though my father counseled against the marriage, I had a choice as to who to marry,” Decker said. “We struggled with our marriage mainly over religion, as we were from different polygamy groups, which held to Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-7804929443014516152013-06-07T15:43:20.177-07:002013-06-07T15:43:20.177-07:00Living the life of polygamy
Author tells persona...Living the life of polygamy<br /> <br />Author tells personal story, seeks to help others leave polygamous lifestyle<br /> <br />St. George Daily Spectrum June 5, 2013<br /> <br />While growing up, Kristyn Decker, who now lives in New Harmony, was a seventh-generation polygamist on her father’s side. More recently, she has made efforts to share her experiences of growing up in a polygamous Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4871973332895967302012-06-04T12:13:25.895-07:002012-06-04T12:13:25.895-07:00Polygamy policy - Utah County attorney gets it rig...<b>Polygamy policy - Utah County attorney gets it right</b><br /><br />Editorial, Salt Lake Tribune Jun 02, 2012<br /><br />The Utah County Attorney’s Office may have raised eyebrows when it declared in a court filing that it would not, as a matter of policy, prosecute polygamists under the state bigamy law unless some form of abuse, violence or fraud were involved. In Utah, this makes Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-46542517807840953122011-12-18T12:58:55.269-08:002011-12-18T12:58:55.269-08:00Polygamy and me: Growing up Mormon
By Maggie Ray...<b>Polygamy and me: Growing up Mormon</b><br /> <br />By Maggie Rayner, Special to The Sun December 16, 2011<br /><br />When my family lived in Richmond, a group of Mormon fundamentalists from Bountiful, near Creston, visited our mainstream Mormon congregation extolling the practice of polygamy, also called the principle or plural marriage. They were looking for wives to add to their collections.Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com