I read the book "Escape" this weekend. The writer was the first woman to escape from the polygamist group, the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints which is now located in Texas. She managed to get away with her children while they were in Arizona a couple of years ago. This biography is a harrowing, unbelievable story of greed, power, mind control, sexual abuse, verbal and physical abuse. It starts out bad and then gets worse on every page. If everyone had read the book, the government would be intervening. It is shocking that children have been placed back in the homes of polygamists. They are not having a different but normal life. It is a cult in the worst sense. Their beliefs are shocking, all designed to keep women and children in slavery. Young men are routinely exiled when in their teens.

It is difficult to read because of the unrelenting abuse, but we all need to read it. I'm especially disturbed that some of the belief structure may come from the LDS that we see all around us. They should be leading the fight to end the FLDS unless of course, they support them.