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The Sweetest and Purest

June 11, 2008 2:59 PM by Dorothy Allred Solomon | 100 Views, COMMENTS

A sign that hangs in homes on the fundamentalist YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas announces: “The Ones That Are Going to Survive Are the Sweetest and Purest.” Given what we’ve discovered about the lives of FLDS women and children, I wonder what that means. Does it mean, “the most obedient” or “the most easily molded”? Does a girl get to take action to protect her sweetness and purity from the ambitions of patriarchs who want to appropriate her body, mind, and soul? Do the FLDS leaders encourage women and children to revoke their anger and desire so that they can take their power away? Or are they just trying to keep peace and order? What do you think?

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Posted by Dorothy Allred Solomon

Dorothy Allred Solomon is the twentieth-eighth of forty-eight children born to polygamist leader Dr. Rulon C. Allred and his fourth wife. She is the author of several books about her upbringing, including In My Father's House (Franklin Watts, 1984) and Daughter of the Saints (W.W. Norton, 2004), the latter winning the WILLA award for memoir. The paperback version of her latest book, The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women (Palgrave, 2007) will hit bookstore shelves in October.

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