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Post by daisy on Nov 21, 2007 15:13:16 GMT -5
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Post by daisy on Nov 21, 2007 15:33:39 GMT -5
Wake-up call on the abuses inherent in polygamy
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy
Escape
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.
Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.
Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
"Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS Church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. The story Carolyn Jessop tells is so weird and shocking that one hesitates to believe a sect like this, with 10,000 polygamous followers, could really exist in 21st-century America. But Jessop's courageous, heart-wrenching account is absolutely factual. This riveting book reminds us that truth can indeed be much, much stranger than fiction." -Jon Krakauer, Author of Under the Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wildwww.amazon.com/Escape/dp/B000WQ11GY/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1/002-4975777-3211226
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Post by daisy on Nov 21, 2007 15:40:58 GMT -5
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This book is incredible! It will have you on the edge of your chair.
You wont want to put it down.
These cruel insecure, power hungry, egotistical, narcissistic men
are the most putrid forms of life imaginable!
Anger boiled inside me as I read this book.
Carolyn is a remarkable women who anyone can draw inspiration from.
Her determination to forge on for the sake of her kids is honerable. What a woman!
I encourage everyone to read this book. Let's help Carolyn become successful over her book and help her to enjoy the riches she deserves after so long of oppression.
You go girl! - Angiewww.amazon.com/Escape/dp/B000WQ11GY/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1/002-4975777-3211226
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Post by daisy on Nov 21, 2007 16:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by daisy on Jan 7, 2008 22:54:23 GMT -5
so my youngest daughter said she does not like that song Mormanesqueosity
she said - it is against women
she also asked arell
how could he want 10 wives instead of me ?
arell told me and my youngest daughter
that he already married me once and he will marry me again
that he will just marry me 10 times and i will be his 10 wives
he says he really wants to marry me once a year every year
so our honeymoon can keep going on and on forever
then arell also said
hey - it is just a song that also says
if he was a mormon
and guess what he=arell is not a mormon
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