Jeffs trial puts spotlight on practices of polygamist sects

"Perhaps as a result of the prosecution of Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs, other polygamist sects in Utah are no longer performing child-bride marriages.

If, as some church members contend, they ever performed them at all.

"We've had polygamous sects say, 'We will not do child-bride marriages,"' Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Deseret Morning News."

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Moral Mormons Fail to Entrap Gentile Whoremongers

"In the 1880s, federal judges were packing off polygamists to Sugarhouse Territorial Penitentiary by the paddy-wagon load. Mormons were helpless to prevent their leaders from being thrown in the pokey by carpetbagging gentiles.

Then a Mormon city official of Salt Lake City hit on a plan to save his church from opprobrium and persecution. He put a peephole in a bordello."

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