So there's this community in BC where crazy mormons live who still engage in polygamy with young girls and the Canadian government is allowing American women to come and get "married" to men who are already married and use that as grounds to stay. Here's an excerpt, I'm disgusted:
It is a secluded community where plural marriage is not only at the centre of the community's religious beliefs but it is a way of life. It's a place where some men have close to 30 wives and father up to 80 children and where teenage girls are married to men old enough to be their grandfathers. They believe that the more children a man produces, the better his chances of entering the celestial kingdom of God, finding salvation and possibly becoming a God himself.
New Members for Bountiful
Within the last decade there has been a remarkable growth in the populations of the polygamous communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Bountiful, British Columbia. It has resulted in a growing influx of young women moving from the US community to Bountiful in an effort to establish closer ties with Winston Blackmore and the Canadian group.
This flow of young women back and forth across the border has raised concerns for Carol Anderson who works as an immigration officer on the Idaho/BC border. She's turned many of these American girls away because she knew they were going to Bountiful for the express purpose of marriage.
Carol Anderson: I've refused admission to them because I didn't think they were visitors. I've refused admission because I felt they were coming here to get married. There is no class under Canada's Immigration law by which they can be sponsored in as a plural spouse. The law prohibits it.
Although it's illegal to have multiple wives in Canada so far nobody in Bountiful has been prosecuted for polygamy. In fact, nine years ago 3 Colorado girls living in Bountiful were denied immigrant status. They appealed the decision to Ottawa on humanitarian grounds and won. Now they are landed immigrants entitled to a full range of benefits like social assistance, complete health care and fully eligible for a child tax credit.
It is a secluded community where plural marriage is not only at the centre of the community's religious beliefs but it is a way of life. It's a place where some men have close to 30 wives and father up to 80 children and where teenage girls are married to men old enough to be their grandfathers. They believe that the more children a man produces, the better his chances of entering the celestial kingdom of God, finding salvation and possibly becoming a God himself.
New Members for Bountiful
Within the last decade there has been a remarkable growth in the populations of the polygamous communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Bountiful, British Columbia. It has resulted in a growing influx of young women moving from the US community to Bountiful in an effort to establish closer ties with Winston Blackmore and the Canadian group.
This flow of young women back and forth across the border has raised concerns for Carol Anderson who works as an immigration officer on the Idaho/BC border. She's turned many of these American girls away because she knew they were going to Bountiful for the express purpose of marriage.
Carol Anderson: I've refused admission to them because I didn't think they were visitors. I've refused admission because I felt they were coming here to get married. There is no class under Canada's Immigration law by which they can be sponsored in as a plural spouse. The law prohibits it.
Although it's illegal to have multiple wives in Canada so far nobody in Bountiful has been prosecuted for polygamy. In fact, nine years ago 3 Colorado girls living in Bountiful were denied immigrant status. They appealed the decision to Ottawa on humanitarian grounds and won. Now they are landed immigrants entitled to a full range of benefits like social assistance, complete health care and fully eligible for a child tax credit.
8 comments:
See, I was surprised when he said anything about polygamy, because I thought that the only people who voted for him were Alberta ranchers and those creepy, possibly polygamous cultists who live in compounds in the BC interior.
I understand exactly why the immigration officer doesn't want to let those girls in. I mean, with that kind of competition how is she going to find herself a husband?
but if the girls were coming in to work at strip bars, on the other hand, they would be fulfilling a useful role in the candian economy where we have a local shortage. as judy sgro would say. and besides, that way they'd be supporting themselves, rather than mooching off their husbands. imagine supporting 30 wives???
in retrospect, I guess knowing that the girls will be freeloading is a good way to scare off those husbands and give that poor, lonely immigration officer her chance. she'd look like a catch by comparison! I mean, who would take a nubile 17 year old over a government employee?
posted by paul
Oh Paul,
You've hit on something brilliant, the beauty of polygamy is that all of us single ladies who are clawing eachother's eyes out to get a man don't have to worry any more, there are plenty of mormons hunks to go around. Did you see the pictures on the website - hubba! hubba!
...said paul rather than anonymous...
but the best thing about the mormon boys is that they all move to washington and get jobs with the fbi. seriously scary...
Yikes! That explains the similarity in fashion I suppose. I thought they all became missionaries and stalked the ethnic neighbourhoods of Toronto or worked for Howard Hughes. Speaking of which, the missionary part not the Howard Hughes part, have you seen the movie Latter Days yet? Excellent film. If you are fascinated by mormons, as I am, you'll get a real kick out of it.
paul again...
missionary is boring.
Leave it to you to bring it down to the lowest common denominator! But I'm glad to know that things are going well enough in your sex life that you can be picky about positions!
paul sez...
one would need to have a sex life for one to be picky about it, no? sigh...
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