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...Protestant suburbanites who attend church at least weekly are 49% Democrat or independent and 39% believe in gay rights. "Democratic leaders should stop stereotyping and start targeting," they write. If Dems do, they may find an audience that's used to it--the authors interviewed megachurch pastors like Rick Warren, who talk frankly about employing tools like polling to build their flocks...
...powered, charismatic men who could possibly move back to Colorado City and take Jeffs' place: one is her ex-husband, Merrell Jessop, who oversees the sect's compound in Texas; the other is Wendell Neilson, who likely oversees another compound. But she considers this unlikely. "I don't think Warren would give away any of his power - he's too controlling and hungry for it and these men would be threats to his leadership. Plus they would never go against Jeffs' wishes." Jessop predicts that Jeffs will rely on his full brother, Lyle Jeffs, to act as his puppet...
During his 14 months in hiding from the FBI, Warren Jeffs managed to continue controlling and directing his followers - members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who number an estimated 10,000, most based in the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Although wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charges of forcing underage marriages, he conducted even more underage unions, exiled men from their homes and families who were considered "unworthy," and ordered followers not to pay their taxes. Some fear that his arrest could now create a power vacuum within...
...Money, sex, and power is what fundamentalist polygamy is about and that is what Warren Jeffs represents," says John Llewelln, who points out that Jeffs is the leader of the largest and most secretive of the fundamentalist polygamy groups. Llewelln has authored four books on polygamy and is a former polygamist himself; he also worked as Salt Lake County's deputy sheriff, specializing in sex crimes investigations. "From the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist point of view, Jeffs is the quintessential Mormon polygamist because he does not hold himself accountable to any government or societal rules - only his religion. His followers view...
...television program Crossfire, someone with whom I disagreed politically but who was analytical and fair. I think that better understanding our frailty helps us keep a balanced perspective. I hope that he continues along that path. As a Republican, I would welcome the old Kinsley back. Bill Kistulinec Warren, New Jersey...