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...singing “Amazing Grace.” “The Laramie Project” as a play is most interested in exploring discrimination against homosexuals, not only in Laramie but throughout the entire country. Jacqui J. Rossi ’12 gave a stunning performance as Rulon Stacey, CEO of Poudre Valley Hospital, where Shepard was taken after being severely beaten. Stacey’s monologue announcing Shepard’s death brought herself and the audience to tears. After the monologue, Stacey talked about the letters she received after Shepard’s passing; some...
...been that way since Jeffs assumed the leadership and the title Prophet in 2002 from his father, the 92-year-old Rulon Jeffs. Previous "Prophets" had emerged from among the so-called worthy men who led the FLDS, but with Warren Jeffs the leadership passed from father to son. The community soon found Warren was a strict enforcer of teaching, expelling members, confiscating property and reassigning wives - he took his father's 22 wives as his own. Named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, he traveled with bodyguards who delivered his exile messages and helped...
...other men of the sect tried to explain themselves to the 21st century, it was as if no common language existed. One man, who gave his name only as Rulon, declared, "We have broken no laws"--though the laws against having multiple wives are more than a century old. "I am a loving and honorable father," said Williams--though he has not seen his children in years, by order of the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs. Asked how he can revere Jeffs as a prophet even after the man drove him from his home, his family and the community...
...warning of impending apocalypse, Jeffs closed the school and moved to the twin towns, where he quickly established himself as more strict and inclined to separatism than his father, the Prophet Rulon Jeffs, who died in 2002. Warren Jeffs, who inherited many of his father's estimated 75 wives, inveighed against newspapers, television, the Internet. Beware of too much laughter, he told followers, which causes the spirit of God to leak from your body. He outlawed basketball games and television and holidays, and when a child was mauled by a Rottweiler, he ordered that all the dogs in town...
...recounted the tale of her life as a frightened teenager at a loss for how to escape. She had never even been kissed when she was told she was to marry her cousin. Horrified, she went to Rulon Jeffs and pleaded to be allowed to wait a few years or be given to a different man. Though "Uncle Rulon" seemed sympathetic, it was Warren Jeffs, she says, who informed her that "your heart is in the wrong place. This is what the prophet wants you to do." Her sisters, including one who was among Rulon's wives, also opposed...