Category: Faith and the Law
Is Hell Illegal? The Implications of the Warren Jeffs Decision
In September 2007, a jury in Utah found Warren Jeffs, a Mormon-fundamentalist religious leader, guilty of being an accomplice to child rape. The trial was a bit of a sideshow—and for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), which has desperately been trying to jettison the facets of its doctrine that are …