Yet another religious cult raided

[Jester]

I'm not insulating religious people from lust or biology. I'm saying that in general they tend to try to rise above the base instincts of rutting and grunting. Sometimes they fail spectacularly, but mostly they do not. Is it possible Warren Jeffs is just a dirty old man? I guess, but the evidence suggests he is carrying on the teachings of his father and the primary tenet of their separation from the LDS from over 100 years ago.

I believe that the original teachings were motivated by the desire for sexual control, and that the splintering of the Mormon faith following the ban on polygamy was in large part due to the unwillingness of some members to part with that control. That it would then be passed down from fathers to sons as religion does not in any sense exclude it from also being an issue of sex. Indeed, to my mind, it seems to reinforce the idea. A mysoginistic, abusive attitude towards women, along with the concept of a chosen few male leaders who are entitled to nearly limitless authority and gratifictaion, seems like it would pass down through the generations quite easily, given the cult conditions of their isolation.

-Jester