Monogamy shall yet rule the border

Authorities in a pair of polygamous Utah-Arizona border towns have supported a campaign of intimidation against the unfaithful, denying them housing and municipal services and allowing members of the dominant religious sect to destroy their crops and property, the U.S. Justice Department said in a lawsuit. The federal civil rights case was filed yesterday against the towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, where most residents are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, run by the group's jailed leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas after convictions on child sex and bigamy charges, but is said to still maintain control of the communities from behind bars. According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Arizona, city leaders and law enforcement in the two towns have for decades served at Jeffs' pleasure while ignoring the constitutional rights of residents who aren't FLDS followers. It's high time the Justice Department got involved in this because police shouldn't be acting on orders to walk all over people just because they're a minority. Society had had enough of that crap by the time Rosa Parks chose not to move to the back of the bus. If it weren't for her, black people in the South would still be sitting at the back of the bus to this day.