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Bust-Up in Bountiful: Discussion
Originally broadcast on October 10, 2007 | Comments 6
This is the next chapter in the fascinating story of the notorious polygamous community of Bountiful, British Columbia. Since the fifth estate first visited the town and met its leader, Winston Blackmore, much has happened both within and without this break-away sect of Mormons. Authorities, in the United States and Canada, are investigating them and a bitter, potentially dangerous, power struggle has developed between Winston Blackmore and the sect's self-proclaimed prophet, the American Warren Jeffs.
Hana Gartner again visits the once idyllic community of Bountiful and sits down to talk to Winston Blackmore.
Tell us what you thought of this story.
Your Comments
I am a Mormon well I would rather say Latter day Saint, I must say I am glad to hear on the interview or the article which ever you prefer that this group broke away from the mainstream church, but how can the mainstream church just stand there, it doesn't look like there doing much about it, I am serious some one has to stop this and now, Apostle David Bednar recently visited our country and said in one of his forums that some one here wants the 11 keys, I feel 1 of those keys a wrong. I don't want the 11 keys but one has to be changed.
Craig R
— Posted on April 14, 2008 02:13 AM
When CBC is reporting again on the subject of polygamy please do not refer to these groups as Mormon fundamentalists, as stated on the official LDS.org web site "There Is No Such Thing as a "Mormon Fundamentalist" or "Mormon Sect"
The term 'Mormon' is a nickname commonly applied to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There is no such thing as a "Mormon fundamentalist," nor are there "Mormon sects."
A correct term to describe these polygamist groups is "polygamist sects." The inclusion of the word 'Mormon' is misleading and inaccurate.
Living and working along side people from the Bountiful community I believe that people within our valley have a different perspective on the story you presented. For many of us polygamy isn't the issue - I personally know many women who are in plural marriages within the Bountiful community and they all seem happy with their lives. So who are we to say that their religious believes are wrong.
Where the main concern with the Bountiful community lies is in the underage marriages, welfare abuse, and immigration violations. This is were investigators should be focusing their energy.
You mentioned the "lesbian wedding" of two of Winston Blackmores wives. There was nothing lesbian about it, it was simply a means for one person to stay in Canada by marrying a Canadian citizen.
If you truly want to present the whole Bountiful story look past the sex and multiple marriages and you will find money and power are the underlying issues in their community.
Whether it is a few lives in Bountiful, the thousands of lives in the Middle East, or the billions of lives unseen, I would say 'freedom of religion' is responsible for more human waste than any other philosophical concept, if it weren't for the freedom of enterprise. Our worship of god the economy, god the son (Dow Jones), and god the holy profit is causing far more self-destruction than all religious beliefs combined. We should 'judge not' Winston Blackmore pitiful, 'that we be not judged'. The only philosophical concept worthy of our protection is the freedom from 'religion'.
Doug Barr
— Posted on October 11, 2007 10:08 AM
Why can't you just leave them alone?
Dan Dagan Victoria
— Posted on October 11, 2007 01:06 AM
Thank you for making it known that this is not the main stream Mormon religion or Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. That this is a fundamentalist group that has nothing to do with the original faith. Too many times these two get confused and it is sad to live in a free country of uneducated people that yell at you and call you a "Mormon Whore" because they don't get that one has nothing to do with the other! So many times the media neglects to clarify the details and falls to sensationalism! Thank you.
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