When the elders of YFZ Ranch in Texas tried to quash a 16-year-old bride’s rebellion, they warned that the outside world would force her to have sex with “lots of men.” Apparently equally important, she would have to cut her hair and wear makeup.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/verena-von-pfetten/the-lowdown-on-fundamenta_b_96786.html

In the largest release of evidence to date, hundreds of pages of dictations by Jeffs to his wife Naomie were unsealed last week, painting a picture in Jeffs’ own words of a paranoid leader whose meticulous control over his flock knew no bounds, continuing even after his arrest and imprisonment for arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/41070

The Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, of Utah is so busy working with polygamist groups, he apparently does not have time to read the law books, or perhaps he just does not care about the rule of law. He, especially, cannot ignore the anti-polygamy laws, because it is a condition for Utah’s statehood in plain language in Utah’s constitution.

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2008/05/the-story-behind-the-story-of-polygamy-in-the-west/

Shouldn’t criminal laws be reserved for conduct that creates serious harm to individuals or society? Does polygamy fit within that framework?

http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/2009/02/polygamy-debate-should-be-in-parliament.html