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By Kent Larsen
Columnist Criticizes Welfare, Government Payments to Polygamists
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- Knight Ridder columnist Susan Mazur traveled
to Utah to look at polygamy during the recent trial of polygamist Tom
Green, and discovered that polygamy in Utah is subsidized by
government handouts. After reviewing the status of polygamy in the
Western U.S., Mazur observes that nearly $3 million in federal, state
and local grants have gone to the town of Colorado City, Arizona
since 1987 and concludes that "it is unconscionable that in the name
of freedom America declares war on the Taliban in Afghanistan while
it continues to state-sponsor the polygamist enslavement of our own
women and children."
Source:
Government subsidies keep polygamy alive in America
Tallahassee FL Democrat (Knight-Ridder) 14Oct01 N5
By Suzan Mazur: Knight Ridder Tribune
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