Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs waives extradition, will face rape charges in Utah on CourtTV.com

Let's get this straight: if Warren Jeffs did what he did, he's a monster.

Despite what you feel about polygamy, there is no excuse for marrying 14-year-old girls to 30 or 40 year old men.  There certainly is no excuse to make said 14 year old girl go back to the "husband priest" and submit to whatever he tells you.

HBO featured a documentary on a polygamy, and I suspect that this issue, along with gay marraige, will come up more and more in our society as we go along.   We will have to have an intelligent, reasoned discussion regarding polygamy with both opponents and supporters on both sides with their own facts and figures.  That is clear.  Utah was bullied into banning polygamy, with Colorado being the clear winner in terms of land. 

But proponents of polygamy would be wise not to use Warren Jeffs as their poster boy, much like fathers rights groups would be wise not to use Darren Mack as theirs.  Polygamy or monogamy, a marraige can and must only be entered into by agreeing and willing adult participants.  Putting children into this is sick, and cannot be tolerated in a modern civilization.