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 | 2004-JUL-29: Marlene Palmer, 45, a supporter of polygyny, said in an interview: |
"We want to speak out about the (government) allegations here. We also want people to know we are not forced into our relationships and the women here are not moronic or uneducated....Pre-arranged marriages don't happen. Fifteen-year-olds don't have to be married to 75-year-old men....All religions have got their things, their rules. If there is child molesting, if cases like that come up, we go to the RCMP."
As many as 80
women planned to hold a massive press conference to discuss their lives.
RCMP
Staff Sgt. Jim Delnea was in charge of the Creston detachment until 2000. He
said: "During my tenure in Creston, there was nothing to indicate anything
like the recent charges was going on in Bountiful."
Audrey Vance,
co-chairman of Altering Destiny Through Education, a group dedicated
to helping women escape Bountiful, said:
"Under that religion, the girls are taught to have babies as soon as they can. But the young girls are stuck -- what do you do with no education and all these babies? You stay put."1
| 2006-AUG-29: Warren Jeffs, the FLDS prophet/dictator,
was arrested after the car he was driving, a new Cadillac Escalade, was
stopped for a routine check in Los Vegas. He was later convicted for his role
in a forced marriage involving a young teenage girl. One effect of his arrest
may well be increased independence for the Canadian wing of the FLDS. |
| 2006-AUG-31: Debbie Palmer, a former member of the FLDS in Canada expects that Winston Blackmore of Bountiful, BC will consider trying to take over power from Jim Oler, the brother of the FLDS prophet, Warren Jeffs. She said: |
"I know that Winston has been positioning himself to be a available as a leader for any of the ones who have become disillusioned. ... The lines are quite firmly drawn. The fact that Jim accepted the position under Warren to be a bishop was quite a shock to all of us because Jim and Winston had been quite close. The blood is just boiling over there. There's some really bad feelings right now." 2
| 2007-AUG-03: The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national newspapers, published an editorial titled "No to polygamy". They wrote, in part: |
"In no way has gay marriage lent legitimacy to polygamy. Gay marriage was legalized by the courts in part because it so resembled heterosexual marriage; for instance, it has two people. The courts endorsed gay marriage only after a large cultural shift had occurred in the arts, in the workplace and in neighborhoods… No such groundswell has occurred in the case of polygamy... It would be very odd if the Charter were read to require Canadians to give up their defense of core values; the document is supposed to encapsulate the country’s core values." 3,4
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2008-MAY-28: Wally Oppal, the province's Attorney
General, disagreed with two previous legal opinions that had concluded that any
court case would probably fail. He instructed Robert W.G. Gillen, the
assistant deputy attorney-general responsible for the Criminal Justice
Branch, to determine the viability of a prosecution. | ||||||||
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2008-JUN-03: For the third time in a year, the British Columbia
government has asked for outside expert legal opinion on whether the province
can successfully prosecute residents of Bountiful BC under Canada's bigamy
law. The first two opinions concluded that the anti-polygamy law was
unconstitutional and unenforceable. Terrence Robertson
has been appointed as a special prosecutor to look
into allegations of abuse, sexual misconduct and polygamy by FLDS members.
His mandate will include:
Attorney General Oppal said:
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The story continues....
References:
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
- Mike D'Amour, "Human smuggling denied. Critic charges girls trafficked as breeding stock," Calgary Sun, 2004-AUG-02
- Jeremy Hainsworth, "Polygamy: Polygamist leader's arrest sets stage for cross-border FLDS power struggle," Canoe, 2006-AUG-30, at: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/
- "No to polygamy," Globe and Mail, 2007-AUG-03.
- Margaret Somerville, "Canada ponders polygamy," MercatorNet, 2007-AUG-20, at: http://www.mercatornet.com/
- Karen Dempsey, "Editorial from the National Council of Women of Canada
re Polygamy," National Council, 2007-AUG-16, at: http://www.ncwc.ca/ - "Special prosecutor appointed in Bountiful case," The Vancouver Province, 2008-JUN-02, at: http://www.harpergrey.com/
- Petti Fong, "B.C. seeks legal opinion on polygamous sect. 'Very complex issue,' attorney general says," The Toronto Star, 2007-JUN-03, Page A16.
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Originally written: 2004-JUL-25
Latest update: 2009-JAN-10
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