Texas prosecution may test bigamy law
This is the House of Yahweh: a different, even darker sect that the state has been investigating for years. Authorities in February charged the group’s 73-year-old leader with performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children — some as young as 11 — to work jobs at his 44-acre compound.
“If a bunch of adults want to get together and follow some con man and throw their lives away, that’s their right in this country,” said Callahan County District Attorney Shane Deel. “But to me, when you do that to children and they don’t have a chance, that’s where the biggest concern is.”
Religion Clause blog reports: “For the first time since the Texas prohibition on bigamy (Penal Code, title 6, Sec. 25.01) was strengthened by the legislature in 2005, a prosecution is about to take place.”
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