Stephanie -- they were not 'persecuted'; they richly deserved at least the great bulk of the shit they caught -- crazy arrogant jackasses who built their harems not only from underage girls and single women, but by aggressively stealing ('converting') married women (along with the children they'd already had) from their not Mormon husbands -- many married women (and children they'd already had) -- with the explicit literal goal of taking over by out-appropriating the womenfolk (and the kids they'd already had) and out-reproducing and thus swamping and washing away the infidels -- it's what they did, what they were all about, within an insular, completely absolutist and utterly batshit insane fucking cult
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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