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Friday, January 23, 2009

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Okay - So I am reading Escape by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer and am beginning to get utterly horrified.

Here are some passages (and mind you I am only on page 40):

This was after a principal beat nearly an entire an entire classroom of children:
Children were seen as property, and physical violence toward them was not only permissible but a way of life. It was preached at church that if you didn't put the fear of God into children from the time of their birth, they would grow up and leave the work of God. Abuse was necessary to save a child's soul (pg 38).

This was something her grandmother taught her:
The principal of celestial marriage is what defines the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints) A man must have multiple wives if he expects to do well in heaven, where he can eventually become a god and wind up with his own planet. (pg 17).

. . . my sole purpose on earth was to have as many children as possible (pg 19).

This all profoundly disturbs me.
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