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...assaulted Doe was a defense witness, not a defendant. And while the headlines referred to it as the POLYGAMY TRIAL, that was not the charge either, though attitudes about polygamy are clearly being put to the test. The defendant, Warren Jeffs, the 51-year-old prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was being tried as an accomplice to rape for commanding Doe to agree to an arranged marriage despite her resistance and instructing her to submit to her husband "mind, body and soul" if she was to have any hope of salvation...
...this was really a case about what happens when the state's interest in protecting children runs up against a church's right to practice its beliefs, however repugnant others may find them. Jeffs' defense lawyers challenge the very notion that he should somehow be held responsible for what goes on in the privacy of a marriage simply because he arranged it. But state prosecutors have long looked for some way to penetrate the remote FLDS enclave, whose apostate refugees tell stories of exploitation of children as workers, of incest and of sexual abuse. Sitting in court amid the throngs...
...FLDS was born more than a century ago when the Mormon church divided over the issue of plural marriage. Church founder Joseph Smith offered polygamy as one of the "eternal principles" of Mormonism, teaching that men would be exalted in heaven by marrying multiple wives on earth. In 1890, after years of penalties, persecution and seizure of church property, a new divine revelation inspired church leaders to reject the practice--which, among other things, paved the way for Utah's statehood. But traditionalist Mormons thought the church was selling out and established their own fundamentalist sects, which continued the practice...
...first encountered Jeffs not as the prophet but rather in his earlier days as a teacher and then principal at her private church school, the Alta Academy, in Salt Lake City. He had been a top student, something of a computer geek, who trained as an accountant and liked to sing and write songs. But he was a stern headmaster, canceling an annual snow-sculpture contest because it smacked of idolatry. Doe recalled his lessons about proper conduct. Girls and boys were to treat each other "as though they were snakes," she said. "There was nothing permitted romantically." Leaving...
...Economics Edward L. Glaeser will serve on the advisory panel to the foundation’s U.S. Program. Gates, who dropped out of the College in 1975, was last year’s Commencement speaker. He and Summers sat next to each other on the steps of Memorial Church during the ceremony as they waited to receive honorary degrees from the University...