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Summary: Compelling and disturbing
Comment: Banking on Heaven
I have just watched Dot Reidelbach's and Laurie Allen's documentary on the FLDS sect in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah with shock and outrage. I thought I had seen everything when I read Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" and Carolyn Jessop's "Escape", but they pale in comparison to the cruelty and abuse women right here in America are enduring at the hands of misguided and, in cases, perverted men.
Interviews with escapees, exiles, lost boys, women who have been victims of incest, who have lost their children and have endured tragedy at which we recoil in horror, makes this must viewing. Here you will discover abuse in the name of religion, elected officials turning their backs on these women's cries for help, the Mormon Church profiting from payoffs by the very well-heeled FLDS sect.
Film footage takes the viewer on a journey to northern Arizona where polygamist men live like potentates in houses worth millions, but whose wives and children lack the bare necessities of life and who are made to go on welfare at the taxpayers' expense. Here, young teenage boys are thrust out into the world to fend for themselves with only the clothes on their backs. Why? Because there are not enough young women to go around for the older men who have been taught they need a minimum of three wives to attain heaven.
Banking on Heaven reveals the corruption in the FLDS, a corruption that extends to a polygamous law enforcement and higher.
This film will anger you, disturb you, maybe make you cry, but it should be required viewing so more people can see a tragedy occurring right here in the United States.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!
Comment: This is a crazy documentary. I cant believe this is happening in the US. Thank you seller for the quick shipment.
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Summary: Don't expect much
Comment: I didn't really care for this video. I expected much more from the reviews and description.
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Summary: Telling the Truth
Comment: Very good video exposing the truth about the FLDS. The material was stretched just a bit - could have been a few minutes shorter. Except for that - well done. This is not an issue about religious freedom but the abuse of children in general, the sexual abuse of girls and brain washing by a charismatic leader.
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Summary: Important
Comment: A surprising look at a surprisingly pervasive phenomenon, FLDS is more than a church, it is a political movement. An intelligent overview of a culture which, when abroad, is viewed as dangerous, but when within our borders, as a first amendment issue.
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