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SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Lawyers for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs have asked the Utah Supreme Court to overturn his accomplice to rape conviction. At a hearing Tuesday, Warren Bugden Jr. argued Jeffs should have been charged with performing an illegal marriage, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Bugden said there is no evidence Jeffs believed Elissa Wall would be subjected to non-consensual sex when he married her, at the age of 14, to her 19-year-old cousin. Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, a dissident Mormon group, was convicted on two counts of accomplice to rape ... Read Full Story

About 100 members of a polygamist sect thanked volunteers for their support during a gathering in Texas to mark the anniversary of a raid that resulted in one of the country's largest child custody cases. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints spokesman Willie Jessop says the church returned to Fort Concho on Friday to thank those who "came to the aid of our people." State officials raided the compound in April 2008 and removed 439 children amid allegations of sex abuse. All but one of the children have been returned to their parents. The state says it believes abuse occurred but ... Read Full Story

312 views If this story doesn’t show the spirit behind mormonistic polygamist sects, I don’t know what does. Mormons. Even their afterlife is based on sex. They believe that if they did everything right down here, they are awarded a planet on which to have everlasting sex with women and populate their planets. Now Warren Jeffs himself is the leader of a sect of such a polygamist group; known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His work was to arrange marriages between older perverted men and young innocent girls, in order for those men to sexually assault them. He ... Read Full Story

Sports and circuses - Salt Lake Tribune Los Angeles Times Sports and circusesSalt Lake TribuneAs long as our representatives keep the masses attending the circuses and sports events, it appears that "all is well."Is BCS Violating Antitrust Laws? Yes, If It Actually ExistedFanHouseMWC finally signs BCS agreementSeattle Post Intelligencerall 896 news articles » In a Globalized World, Sports Emerges [...] Read Full Story

B. Thomas Cooper - Editor Sound and Recording - blogment - National News wire - The Infinite Echo C’mon guys, Is this really necessary? Another day, another scandal. Forget the new ' Sex in the City ' movie. Leave the yet to be released 'Brittany Sex Tapes ’ for another day. This is the week polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs takes center stage. How does this happen in America? Gosh, I hope to hell I’m being rhetorical, cause it’s a question to which I’d rather not learn the answer. According to CNN, Jeffs, age 52, is in a Utah prison, serving two consecutive terms ... Read Full Story