Polygamist sect children returned; underage marriage outlawed
Parents are being reunited with their children that were taken from Warren Jeffs’ polygamist sect, after a Texas judge ordered that the removal of the children was improper. And in order to keep further heat off them, the sect’s leaders have now outlawed underage marriage within their ranks. How nice, since the state of Texas had already outlawed it for them…
Late Monday, Willie Jessop, an elder for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said the church won’t allow underage girls to marry. Jessop told the AP the new policy will forbid any girl to marry who is not of legal consent age in the state where she lives.
Jessop said the church has been widely misunderstood, but he said the church will not sanction marriages of underage girls and will counsel members against such unions. He insisted marriages within the church have always been consensual.
Earlier, Texas District Judge Barbara Walther, responding to a state Supreme Court ruling last week, signed an order filed by attorneys for the parents and Child Protective Services, allowing the parents to begin picking their children up from foster care facilities around the state almost immediately.
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