The American Spectator

br> Re: William Tucker’s Polygamy and Me and “One Man, Many Headaches” letters in Reader Mail’s Human and Divine : /p> p>Concerning Polygamy: Jesus taught that the divine pattern is that “the two [not three, four, etc.] shall become one flesh” (Matthew 19:5). Polygamy mars the “one flesh” ideal. The New Testament takes for granted the relationship of one man for one woman in the marriage arrangement (see 1 Corinthians 7:2; 9:5; Ephesians 5:23ff). br> And on another plane… isn’t one spouse bad enough??? br> — Kevin W. br> Morgantown, West Virginia /p>

I was interested by Mr. Tucker mentioning that he had wanted to do a book on terrorism and polygamy because that would certainly be upheld by reality. Mormon off-shoot polygamists under a kind of honor killing called blood atonement have killed more than 50 people in the United States since about 1970. These included the assassination of a 7-year-old girl, an 8-year-old girl, an 18-month-old girl who had her throat slit and also the torture deaths of a 3-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. These crimes have been perpetrated in the states of Ohio, California, Utah, Texas, Colorado and Nevada. But even more interesting is the fact that Timothy McVeigh was involved with a non-Mormon-based polygamous group in Elohim City and committed the bombing on the day that a polygamous member of a white racist party was put to death by the state of Arkansas, I believe. Racism and violence or threats of violence is a vital part of off-shoot Mormon polygamy and Aryan race polygamous groups. Swapp and Singer bombed a Mormon church and killed a law enforcement officer in Utah. Jim Harmston of the Manti group in Utah built his following around racism, guns, and sex. Without even looking to the Middle East one can easily see the connection between the radical religions/cults polygamy and terrorism.

p>I hope that Mr. Tucker finds someone to support his book so that more people understand that polygamy is not just a group of people playing slap and tickle under the covers, but a belief system that encourages breaking the law, sexual abuse in the form of marriages involving incest, stepfather/daughter marriage and sexual relations between teenaged girls and older married men because the need for females for marriages is unending but the supply of those willing to engage in polygamy is small, and coercion involving threats to women (often of eternal damnation if not death itself). Boys and men, as well, have been the victims of abuse in the effort to keep the ratio of males to females unnatural. Threats of violence also extend to people who are critical of the lifestyle and its inherent abuses. Sometimes those threats are realized. br> —