| As you have no doubt read, the country's
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| | and pleaded, "Please, judge, lock me up.
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| leading bigamist - distinguished title,
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| | Save me! You have no idea what it's like
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| eh? - was arrested in Las Vegas during a
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| | to have 40 wives and 60 children! Please,
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| routine traffic stop. He had made it to
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| | I beg you, put me in solitary
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| the number one spot on the FBI's list of
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| | confinement! And throw away the key! Not
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| top ten hits for marrying underage women
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| | to keep me in there, but to keep my wives
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| to devout gentleman significantly older
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| | and children out."
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| than themselves.
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| | The judge, who apparently knows how
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| The much marrying minister, Warren Steed
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| | demanding even just the usual one wife
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| Jeffs, is the proud leader of a throwback
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| | and two kids can be, listened with a
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| known as the Fundamentalist Church of
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| | watery eye, slammed his gavel, and said,
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| Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It's
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| | "It's Utah for you!"
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| 10,000 or so members are convinced God
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| | So Jeffs will wend his newly solitary
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| speaks through Jeffs and refer to him as
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| | way, leaving behind thousands of
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| the "The Prophet."
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| | followers who have, in duped devotion,
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| The judge denied him bail, convinced he
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| | been willing to hide and support him; the
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| would go on the lam. The adjudicator
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| | affidavit says he has, in fact, access to
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| noted, "These followers are committed to
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| | safe houses in Utah, Nevada, Arizona,
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| him because they view him as their
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| | Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, and
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| religious leader, a 'prophet of God,' and
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| | Canada.
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| are willing to do anything for him."
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| | But apparently he feels safer in the
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| The devout Jeffs is hardly a thoroughly
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| | hoosegow.
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| modern Mormon - if the foregoing is not
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| | Immediately after his surprise arrest,
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| too uncomfortable a juncture to stick
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| | laments by prematurely married women
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| together. While the followers of the
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| | began to show up on his group's Website,
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| prophet Mormon rejected polygamy over a
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| | detailing the lives he condemned them to
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| hundred years ago, the dedicated disciple
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| | lead or risk "losing their own
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| of Brigham Young - or bring 'em old but
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| | salvation."
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| bring 'em any way you can - is said to
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| | "He's not the sole supporter of
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| have some 40 wives and 60 children.
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| | polygamy," said Lori Chatwin, a Colorado
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| So it is no wonder that at his
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| | City woman who was married off at age 17.
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| arraignment, he did not contest
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| | "It's a religious belief."
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| extradition to Utah, where there is
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| | Well, Lori, how can we say this kindly?
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| apparently ample evidence of his
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| | Sad to say, if you believe stupid things,
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| misdoings; the charge he will face is
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| | you're far more likely to end up with a
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| "rape by accomplice."
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| | stupid life.
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| In fact, he fell on his knees in court
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