Anti-polygamy activist pens book on FLDS
Posted by Joshuah at 6 August, 2008, 5:56 am 
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Source: Deseret News
Flora Jessop’s “Church of Lies: The True Story of Escaping Slavery and Polygamy, and Rescuing Women and Children from the Notorious Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints
” will hit bookstore shelves in February 2009. It’s being published by Jossey-Bass, a division of Wiley Publishing.
“It’s a book about my life, about what I come from and why I do what I do,” Jessop told the Deseret News on Thursday. “I think that it’s important to know why I do what I do, and for people to know why I’m fighting for these children.”
In the book’s preface, Jessop said she was one of 28 children born to her father and his three wives. At 8, she said she began being sexually abused and tried to run away throughout her teenage years. She finally left the church about 20 years ago, enduring a rough life until she became an advocate for abused children in polygamy.
Jessop now heads the Phoenix-based Child Protection Project, where she has helped women and children seeking to leave the FLDS communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. She once proclaimed she’d be willing to go to jail for harboring runaways, if it meant protecting children from abuse.
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In our biblical worldview, there are three options when it comes to marital relationships: monogamy, polygyny, and celibacy. Most people are monogamous. A few of us may be either polygamous or celibate. All three options are morally, ethically and spiritually equal. |
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