Posted by:
wittyname
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Date: December 17, 2011 12:42PM
I was just streamed this show here (http://www.megavideo.com/?d=60ASGLAJ), and the view they presented about their version of polygamy is very, very different from the view they presented on the dateline (i think) special about 8 or 9 years ago. Did they blatantly lie about their views, or were the nuances cut out of the dateline special?
Here they say that men have no choice, and a woman has to choose the man. Not that their relative close proximity to the FLDS community in that area should make a difference, but I find it hard to believe that their practices are so vastly different from other hardcore, organized fundamentalist mormon groups.
If it is true that women get to select their man, what happens if they don't? At a certain age, are they thrown out like the FLDS lost boys? Or do they just remain with their parents, helping to raise their parents' kids, like an unmarried Duggar woman? Or at that point, do they end up in an arranged marriage?
What about they men, what if they aren't chosen? I imagine there's extreme pressure on men who don't have the minimum number of wives to get a planet.
So my question is for those with specific knowledge of the centennial park community (knowledge of others is interesting, of course, but I'm specifically interested in this community because they put themselves out there recently in a way that seems to contradict what they put out earlier in the decade), what REALLY goes on??
(on a side note, I found it interesting that the basketball team was called the Masada Warriors, you don't here too much day-to-day references to sites like that in Israel amongst LDS or fundamental mormons. I would have been less surprised to see them called Adam-Ondi-Ahman Apples)
**for context, I'm suspicious of this new face they are presenting, though it's clear why they do it. I don't really believe this is the way it is. I'm just wondering how off base it it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2011 12:43PM by wittyname.