Mormon Fundamentalists: A reasonably long but disturbing and well-worth-reading account of inner fighting, ostracism, and threatening behaviour enacted on behalf of the now-jailed leader of a group of fundamentalist Mormons, Warren Jeffs.
In recent years, this enclave has been ripped apart by a modern holy war, led by a divisive spiritual leader who ended up on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and is now in prison. The majority of Short Creek residents remain loyal to him and his sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS. But they are losing ground to apostates — those who either walked away from the church or were pushed out — who are starting to build their own community. To the FLDS, they are nothing less than an existential threat.
The article includes quite harrowing details of the lengths to which the fundamentalist religious group go to in order to spy on people they consider outsiders, as well as details of the power that Jeffs and his supporters wield. One of the last sentences gives you a taste:
[Jinjer] won’t leave their dogs — Buddy, Boots, and Rebel — outside for long; she’s convinced they’ll be killed.
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