Episode 190: When Mormons Radicalize

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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For the first time ever, Fundamentalist Ben Shaffer tells the horrific story of how his brother, Samuel Shaffer radicalized into a dark brand of Mormon fundamentalism, eventually landing him in jail. On the heels of the Lafferty story and largely […]

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Just a quick aside before we get to the podcast. I often get contacted by listeners asking how they can help address the issues that we cover in this podcast. How can you help? How do you help people in abusive polygamous relationships? How do you support women in these groups? How do you help people in abuse of polygamous relationships? How do you
0:21.4	support women in these groups? How do you help people that have been affected by these issues?
0:25.8	Or some of you reach out for resources and ask, where can I get some help from? I want you to be
0:31.3	aware of a resource that I like to direct people toward cherish families. I'm going to let
0:36.4	my friend Tyner tell you more about
0:39.0	them. Hey everybody. I'm actor Tyner Rushing. I came into contact with Mormon issues affecting
0:45.0	fundamentalist communities from my work on a TV show. And I wanted to know how to help.
0:50.6	And I found out about cherished families. I went to southern Utah. I toured their facilities
0:55.1	and was really truly impressed. It's an organization founded by women with polygamous backgrounds.
1:01.7	Shirley Draper, who co-founded it, left the FLDS group several years ago and the experience was so
1:07.0	difficult. She realized how many support gaps there were and ran into a lot of barriers to
1:11.3	accessing resources. So she started Cherish Families as a way to help people like her. I was really,
1:16.9	really impressed with the organization, which is why I've decided to lend my voice to support the work
1:21.7	that they do. That's right. If you're looking for the best way to help people involved with issues
1:26.6	on this podcast, lend your support to cherish families.
1:29.5	Go to cherish families.org to find out more.
1:31.9	Or if you're in need of assistance, if you're one of those folks, in a plural community that needs a little extra help or leaving a plural community, contact cherished families at cherish families.org. Hello and welcome. How did I not see this coming? Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast.
2:24.4	I'm your host, Lindsay.
2:25.9	And today we're going to be talking about some very difficult things.
2:30.0	So I'm going to give this episode a lot of trigger warnings.
2:34.4	We will be discussing abuse, sexual abuse, and violence.
2:39.2	So if those topics are too hard to handle, I would recommend sitting this one out.
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