Word: sexualism
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...think it's become a lot harder to raise children. When I was growing up, the culture was much friendlier. Drugs weren't an issue, and there weren't the sexual pressures on the kids in high school that there are now. Parents have to work against the culture to raise wonderful kids...
...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 of reporters and silent church members was Utah attorney general Mark Shurtleff, a Republican and a practicing Mormon, come to offer moral support to his team. He has called Jeffs "a religious tyrant, a demagogue" with an "absolute disregard for the laws...
...braided, their clothes modest. They will carry their iPods with them all day so they can listen to Jeffs' sermons. "Sister wives" share household chores and raise multitudes of children as their husbands rotate among bedrooms. It's virtually impossible for child-welfare officials to track levels of sexual abuse. When girls are ready to marry, they "turn themselves in" for the FLDS prophet to arrange a "celestial marriage." The husband may already have other wives, but because these are religious rather than legal unions, they do not violate laws against bigamy...
...inspiring more mainstream-minded pluralists of the Big Love school to charge that he was giving the practice a bad name. At the same time, prosecutors were looking for a way to address growing rumors of abuses within the sect, and they turned to newly strengthened child-abuse and sexual-predator laws. In 2005, Jeffs was indicted for sex crimes in Arizona and Utah and became a fugitive. A year later, he was on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list until his arrest in August 2006 in Las Vegas. Police found $53,000 in cash as well as cell...
...Craig had challenged the case, it sounds like he might have had a real chance of winning at trial. But it's always virtually hopeless to plead guilty, and then say you're innocent. I think the notion of criminalizing what Craig was accused of doing [making a sexual advance to a male police officer in a bathroom] is questionable. But Craig really forfeited the right to make most arguments by pleading guilty...