BC polygamy debate continues
Posted Jan 23, 2011 08:18:28 PM.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Some women from a secretive polygamous sect in Bountiful will emerge from the shadows tomorrow to lend support for their lifestyle.
They will testify in a courtroom in Vancouver, insisting polygamy has been a positive force in their lives. The court case is trying to decide if Canada’s anti-polygamy law will stand a challenge.
Several women and men who left polygamous communities have already recounted what they describe as physical and emotional abuse.
Bountiful has about 1,000 residents who are members of the FLDS, a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practises polygamy, which was renounced by the mainstream church more than a century ago.
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