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With the ongoing Warren Jeffs trial, polygamy and the FLDS has been getting more news coverage than usual. Today's Review-Journal has an article about polygamist families moving from Colorado City to Las Vegas -- that is, from an FLDS enclave to mainstream America. (1) #
9/16/2007

Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), was arrested in Nevada just north of Las Vegas. I've written about Jeffs and his community before. (12) #
8/29/2006

FLDS polygamists are moving to Las Vegas, in the form of one of their businesses. They aren't the first. (7) #
8/2/2006

My FLDS hatin' ain't done yet: here's the LA Times on the culture of child abuse that exists in Jeffs's Fundamentalist Mormon compound. Update: Here's part two of the story. (double thx, lorelei) (9) #
5/12/2006

crazymonk.org: Fundamentalist Mormon Edition. Local writer Richard Abowitz blogs about Fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs being on the FBI's top ten list and links to an article he wrote describing his investigations of Jeff's community on the Utah/Arizona border. The Phoenix Times writes about the abundance of children in that community being born with severe physical maladies and acute mental retardation due to massive in-breeding. (16) #
5/9/2006