Warren Jeffs: Behind bars for life for having 78 wives

Serial polygamist, Warren Jeffs, was recently sentenced to life in prison PLUS 20 years. Red State Gal had one thought, upon hearing the news: Hooray for Texas! She explains why in this week’s Conservative Feminist.

 
 Red State Feminists were thrilled by the conviction and sentencing of Warren Jeffs in a Texas courtroom. They may not hang ‘em high in Texas anymore, but they jail ‘em long. Jeffs got life in prison plus 20 years for good measure. He’d have to turn 100 to even be eligible for release. Hooray for Texas!You may remember ol’ Warren Jeffs–the guy with 78 wives. And almost all of these wives were 12, 13, 14, 15 when he “married” them. Of course, we may never know their true ages, because birth certificates are routinely falsified among these polygamous cults to make it appear that the girls areolder than they really are.
These polygamous cults are a menace to society. The men don’t support the women and children–no, the women and children are supposed to support the men! They are supposed to work their tails off to gain enough resources for the man to buy additional wives. Yes, buy. These girls are trafficked by their families within and between polygamous groupsAnd, of course, the government also helps support the wives and children through welfare, food stamps, and other benefits. These are turned over to the men to support his lifestyle. The women and children are the men’s work gangs. The men take and take and take–from the women, the children, and the government. They are utter blood-sucking parasites.
The men know they have to get rid of the boys in order to maintain their polygamous ways. Most of these cults believe you need at least 3 wives to make it to heaven. That means that at least 50% of the boys have to be kicked out of the group and torn from their families in order to make this work. Of course, Jeffs with his 78 wives didn’t help the situation. The boys are disposable goods; they’re used to make money through the group selling their labor, and then when they are around 15, that’s it. They’re kicked out.The girls are goods, too, but the men don’t want to dispose of them–they want to consume them. They consume them sexually, they consume their labor, and they even consume their children. The men try to get their wives pregnant as soon as possible, because as soon as she has a baby, she’s a hostage. They will threaten to take away her child or children if she does not obey. Indeed, her children may be taken away temporarily if she is showing any signs of rebelliousness. The “Big Love” TV show hides a lie–the lie that women and children are treated well in these groups. It’s not true–and the Warren Jeffs trial exposes just how sordid things can get.
Ironically, Canada is contemplating legalizing polygamy. Any nation that legalizes polygamy is just plain stupid. It gives the most evil of men a way to amass significant political and economic power. Indeed, polygamists have taken over the government of one county in Utah already. It’s best to view these groups as racketeering mobs–for that is what they really are. Human trafficking, slave labor, pedophilia, incest, fraud, perjury–even murder.
Thank God Texas had the cojones to take these vile men on and put them away for good!
by Red State Gal
images: DBKP file; Pure Mormonism
source: Texas Got ‘Im: Warren Jeffs