Oh, Mormons

[asterroc]

A 21-year old Mormon woman in Utah wanted to marry a man her parents disagreed with, so they did what any good Mormon parents should do. Under the guise of taking her shopping for the Garments, they kidnapped her and started driving her towards Colorado. The article isn't clear on how she escaped, but she's now pressed kidnapping charges apparently.

Oh, and she did get married to the guy in August, and is due in May, exactly 9 months later.

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

It looks like they all went back together. Since the parents themselves live in Provo, they probably realized that they weren't capable of just running off to who-knows-where and take their daughter with them - they had to go back home at some point. Probably once they were back in Provo, she just ran out of the house and got away to someone else's place. Not a really well-thought-out kidnapping.

Incidentally this sounds like a perfect case for criminal mediation.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I think they were just hoping to continue her Mormon brainwashing. I mean, they asked her "Are you prepared to go to the temple without us?" which I think means that if she got married w/out their approval and presence, that the whole family wouldn't be Sealed together and they'd be separated in the afterlife. That's pretty scary if you buy into the whole thing. I'm not sure if she did get married in the temple or not in the end.

But yeah, mediation seems more logical to me than a lawsuit or pressing charges. *shrug*

[sammka.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm sure that Mormonism has a lot to do with it and they certainly used a good deal of religious rhetoric, but that kind of guilt trip is common for all sorts of parents to pull on their kids if the kids are marrying someone the parents don't approve of.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Naw, just the couple are sealed. Blood relations are constant.

Also if she qualified for a Temple ceremony she is in pretty darn good standing with the church.

Four of my (step)kids had Temple weddings. One had to wait a year after the birth of their first child since she was pregnant at the time of their civil ceremony.

And no, I am not Morman, and never have been, but my wife was for fifteen years.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

One of my friends was Mormon for most of their life, so I learned a bit about it because of them. Then they came to their senses. ;)

There are some part of it that I like, but there's sooooo much more that's really scary.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

That is how my wife and three of the kids feel (there are six total. One came to his senses after his wedding.) Lots of positive to the church culture, but a little too clingy and controlling sometimes.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

For my friend, what eventually drove her out was that she believed that women should be allowed things like goals, an education, and a career, and not just spend their lives as baby factories.

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[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

You left out house cleaner and personal services provider.

And that is what drove fierce_rabbit out too.