Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy

Subject: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Alice
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:27 PM

Last night I found this song titled "Colorado City" by a folk group called "The Sons-in-Law Of The Daughters Of The Utah Pioneers."
You can hear it at You Tube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjwL0IQcowA&feature=related

some of the lyrics:
Colorado City so loves its women
they put them on a pedestal they couldn't get off
keep em' warm and safe from a life of sinnin'
they made a wife of a daughter of a brother in law
may they get away perhaps
with a bride on every lap

Alice

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:37 PM

This is a very good song, and the video speaks volumes. Please go listen. I can't believe no one has commented on it yet.

The news have been full of this 'religious' atrocity for days, but no comments here.

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:45 PM

I've been reading the news. Pubescent girls forced into marriage in Texas by an break-way LDS group. Pretty darned depressing.

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:46 PM

It is a good song, but I think it could be even stronger. I did see the poster said they were very uncomfortable being there and, I think, they are lucky to have taken the pix without anything happening to them.

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:51 PM

The practicioners claim 'religious freedom'. Come on, this is abuse, pure and simple, and illegal in the United States. What else can be done? There are several more compounds of the 'Jeffs Sect' in the US, not to mention other polygamous sects.

Can we actually DO something about this abomination of abuse?

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 11:05 PM

So far, the settlement practicing polygamy in southern British Columbia hasn't been bothered. The group has been active for some 65 years in Bountiful, B.C., approximally 1000 members in 2006.
A paper was published by three lawyers at Queens University, recommending that the practice be legalized, and pointing out that the practice may be constitutional and prohibition illegal.

The article was published in the Vancouver Sun on January 13, 2006. The RCMP asked some questions in 2006, but no prosecutions were laid. Nothing in the news lately.

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 12:00 AM

This is more digression to comments on the song, but Muslim marriages to more than one woman seem to be practiced in Canada.
Alia Hogben, ececutive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim women, says "Anecdotally, we hear that in Toronto and Ottawa some so-called religious leaders are performing Muslim (polygamous) marriages" (She is opposed to polygamy because of its impact on women's rights. She says "The second wife has no rights."

Since the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage, some legal experts doubt that plural marriage can be considered illegal, no longer a matter for the courts.

Subject: RE: Colorado City: Folk Song on Polygamy
From: Alice
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 12:03 AM

And there is a CD!

http://cdbaby.com/cd/utahpioneers2

One reveiw:

"We now know the source of moral decline in Utah. Maybe the world is welcome here, but NOT the Sons-in-Law of the DUP. Their music is an abomination. Patriarchs need to keep this material away from wives and children."       Dr. Scott Leckman, former candidate for U.S. Senate