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    Author: * Vortigern Aedui - 1 Post on this thread out of 2,425 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 26, 2007 - 14:51

    ST. GEORGE, Utah (Reuters) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, whose word was considered God's will to his fundamentalist church of breakaway Mormons, was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape by forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.

    Jeffs, the self-described "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, spent 15 months on the run and was on the FBI's Most Wanted list before his arrest in August 2006.


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    Anyone who is a fan of the show Big Love on HBO will get a kick out of this story. Polygamy is probably one of the funniest sects of a religion that is out there. Why a man would want more than one wife is beyond me, as I only have one and I wouldn't want two or even three times the nagging.

    These people in Utah seem to like it though.


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