Old Stuff from my Basement Files:

Probably not True

It was reported that an 18-year old girl was married to a 50-year-old Saudi man.  

But this is true!

I've just finished watching a BBC documentary about the LDSF (Latter Day Saints Fundamentalists.)

When the main LDS (Mormon) elders voted to drop polygamy, a fundamentalist group was formed to preserve the custom.  It moved away from Salt Lake City and formed an independent community.

The community was governed by a "bishop" who talked directly to God and ruled with "an iron hand."

The Bishop could:

Tell his flock who they could marry.

Keep females from going to school or getting a job.

Pass out wives for male members who have done him favors.

Give a Bible lesson every day at 7 am.  Everybody had to listen.

Take a wife for himself from the female flock or away from their husbands if they were married.

The Bishop's goal was for all females to adhere to one task:  Please your man, and do what he wants (or what the bishop wants) no matter what he asks you to do.

The higher you get to Eden-like Paradice was to have a lot of wives.  The bishop had 78.  

The local LDSF temple had a hidden room where the bishop would consecrate his marriages on a long ivory table.

Yes, he did get caught and is serving time; but he still controls his flock from his cell.

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