U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old first cousin.
Jeffs, the self-described "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, spent 15 months on the run and was on the FBI's Most Wanted list before his arrest in August, 2006.
In tearful testimony, the victim said she begged Jeffs not to marry her to her cousin, whom she did not like. Jeffs had told her it was her religious duty to give herself to her husband, and instructed her to repent and submit to his will.
The woman, whose identity was not disclosed during her trial, said she wanted to die after her husband first forced her into sex.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/ts_nm/usa_polygamy_trial_dc_7;_ylt=AnXEPMIBZ5USm6PKF9zxtlcF1vAI
Jeffs could get just 5 years for helping a 14 year old girl get raped. This is US equality?
2007-09-28 03:23:37 · 11 answers · asked by edith clarke 7 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Hmm, I thought this was Yahoo Questions and Answers, not "Don't ask, shut up if you say stuff I don't like". lol If you hate my questions, why are you answering so many of them?
2007-09-28 08:04:38 · update #1
Oh you're right, this guy is the only US religious leader who is a perv, there were only a few hundred priests who sexually molested a few hundred kids, there's just a few religious leaders who have sex with underage boys and girls, and only a few have sex with prostitutes. How could I sully all their sterling reputations like this? btw, My father is fundy christian preacher-I've met plenty of pervy religious leaders in person, as well as good people, but the church is the perfect place for pervs to hang out.
2007-09-28 08:23:00 · update #2
word to that *oh and a whooping 5 years for pretty much enslaving and raping someone and ruining their life...jeez....it...
(and yes I know you don't want this kind of answer but I don't have time for an essay
today)
and
whewwEE some of these answers are really sumptin...
I tell you some of thEse bois need soMe good ol "deliverance" upon them
if ya know what I mean ;) ...ima lol
2007-09-28 03:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That Jeffs clown is about to know what his victims went through, for acting like some self appointed demigog.
He will share a cell with 130kg Bubba and become Bubba's sex toy.
A hidden form of justice dispensed to Jeffs
2007-09-28 22:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thankfully, people like Jeffs are the exception rather than the rule in the US. Warren Jeffs and others like him are members of extremist sects that support acts that are illegal in the US.
2007-09-28 15:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by tangerine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I beg to differ... Jeffs is NOT a "religous leader".
He's no better than a diddler watching the school yard. He just comes from a long lineage of pedophiles, observed how his father handled the "flock" and continues to brain wash an entire isolated community.
2007-09-28 11:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by mama_bears_den 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My answer would be to continue following this story in the news. I think Mr. Jeffs problems are not over and he will spend many more than 5 years in prison.
Fundamentalist religions are allowed to practice in the U.S. if they do not break rules of law such as rape and incest. Practicing fundamentalists lose their equal rights under the law when they are not law abiding.
2007-09-28 10:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by cam8122 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Warren Jeffs is not an American religious "leader." He's a nutjob that has convinced other nutjobs he has inside information on their life after death.
It has nothing to do with "US equality" and you well know that.
2007-09-28 10:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You should not cast all religious leaders into the same arena as Mr. Jeffs. To do so would make your guilty of the same "crime" that many feminists claim those who do not believe in feminism are guilty of.
2007-09-28 10:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by Fletcher t 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I am not sure how you are puting one case into the whole of equality.
Maybe you need to explain how this relates to more people than this story does.
2007-09-28 10:28:48 · answer #8 · answered by ! Answers 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, this is not "U.S. equality."
Why do you use "U.S. religious leaders" in the plural? This is one whackjob upon whom the U.S. legal system and media squarely landed like a ton of bricks.
Now, what's your agenda? Man-bashing, religion-bashing, or America-bashing? Your tone says it all.
"VICTIM! VICTIM! VICTIM! WE'RE ALL STILL HELPLESS VICTIMS! AT THE MERCY OF THE VICTIMIZING... uh... VICTIMIZERS! YEAH!"
Shut up.
2007-09-28 10:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
Religion is wrong.
2007-09-28 12:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋