Carolyn Jessop: Spilling the Secrets of a Polygamist Sect
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Date: 10 January 2008
Escape From Plural Marriage
At 18, Carolyn Jessop was forced to become the fourth wife of a man nearly three times her age.
Jessop was born into The Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist sect made infamous by the tyrannical leadership of Warren Jeffs. The group broke away from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly called the Mormon Church.
In 2003, at 35 years old, Jessop fled the sect with her eight children and only $20 in her pocket. She wrote of her almost unbelievable life and flight to freedom in a new book, called simply, Escape.
Editor's Note: The broadcast of our story referred to Jessop’s husband as 58 years old at the time of their marriage. He was in fact 50 years old.
Carolyn Jessop, author of Escape
The Death Penalty: Religious Arguments Pro and Con
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This week we explore both sides of one of society’s most volatile moral issues: the death penalty.
The debate has heated up since December, when New Jersey became the first state in four decades to abolish capitol punishment with legislative action. Join us as Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. (pro) and attorney Dale S. Recinella (con) explore the “ultimate punishment”—often dissecting the very same biblical passages.
Sara Craft, organizer and field support coordinator for Equal Justice USA
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Dale S. Recinella, Catholic lay chaplain for Florida's death row and solitary confinement
