Warren Jeffs has been found guilty of polygamy and sexually assaulting two under-aged girls he had taken as “spiritual wives.” This has brought up a lot of mixed emotions from the public about the Fundementalist group and their principles. By mixed, I mean that the media and popular culture were just beginning to open up to this alternative lifestyle with shows like TLC’s Sister Wives and HBO’s Big Love.
Just watch the first episode of Sister Wives and it is not much different to how they would portray Little People, Big World. The husband, Kody, is funny, charming and even devoted. His wives are happy – even preferring being plural to having his attention all to themselves. In the first episode his first and legal wife begins to cry as she tells the camera that it comforts her that if she should die two women are there to raise her daughter as their own the way she would want them to be raised. This is her revelation since her biological sister’s death from Cancer.
In the shadows of this Brady Bunch family with two extra mothers is this super creepy Warren Jeffs scandal. Are we being to open and accepting to people of this kind of lifestyle? Should people be free to love however they want?
Watching Sister Wives you think, “Well, different strokes for different folks. If that is what you’re into.” But then there is the perverse side of manipulating young women into marraige before they understand what they are doing or even understand what love is.
For links to more on the Warren Jeffs trial and local reactions follow the link below.
Warren Jeffs: Linking together the narrative « …And Eve Knew Snake.
Tags: Big Love, child bride, Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormon, Polygamy, Sister Wives, warren jeffs
