Have you ever wondered what it would be like living in a polygamous community? Now you can find out, with members of a US church group now offering travellers “polygamy tours”.
“The Polygamy experience: A guided tour of Colorado City” offers visitors the chance to “learn the story of the US’s largest and most secluded polygamist colony” with a four-hour guided tour of the US towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.
The locals are notoriously uncomfortable with outsiders, with the towns’ practice of plural marriages and history of sexual assault charges, of which the group’s leader Warren Jeffs was convicted two years ago, landing them under the scrutiny of police.
However the tours operators hope to show the public that polygamists are actually peaceful people.
Richard Holm and his brother Heber are among those launching the tour. Richard was exiled from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), which controls both Colorado City and Utah, in 2003, while Heber left the community 35 years ago.
Richard Holm says the four-hour tours will give travellers the chance to ask any questions they may have about polygamy.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
US church offering polygamy tours.
It's like Disneyland but with forced marriages and sexual assaults. From News.com.au:
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i so want to go on this.
Sadly, the women into polygamy are not the ones you want. Unless you like wool dresses, ankle-length braids, and/or Chloe Sevigny.
But Adam shouldn't it just be about choice.
And many atheistic Darwinists would argue that polygamy is more natural than monogamy. It certainly seems many high order mammals practice polygamistic type behavior quite successfully.
How did that song go:
"You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel".
Okay enough, even I'm about to puke.
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