Justice Department files bias suit against towns home to polygamist sect
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."
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
--Dalai Lama
polygamist towns claim religious discrimation
