ArcaMax Off the Wall, Wednesday October 8, 2003
State and local law-enforcement officials met in Salt Lake City in
August to discuss the growing and seemingly intractable problem of the
radical, Mormon-based polygamist community that reaches from Hildale,
Utah, to Colorado City, Ariz., and which has been denounced by
mainstream Mormons. Issues included not just religious freedom and
forced marriage for young girls, but the $5 million annually in
federal benefits that go to polygamist wives who say they are "single"
mothers on their welfare applications. [KSL-TV (Salt Lake City),
8-21-03, 8-22-03]
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