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| 06/22/12 09:36 PM |
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polygamist towns claim religious discrimation
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Justice Department files bias suit against towns home to polygamist sect
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WASHINGTON/SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department sued two polygamist-dominated towns on the Utah-Arizona border on Thursday, citing religious discrimination and saying they operated for two decades as an arm of a breakaway Mormon sect.
The complaint accuses the cities of carrying out the "will and dictates" of now-imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a prison term of life plus 20 years in Texas for raping two underage girls he wed in "spiritual marriages."
The complaint accuses the cities of carrying out the "will and dictates" of now-imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a prison term of life plus 20 years in Texas for raping two underage girls he wed in "spiritual marriages."