Religion, you so crazy!

No, religion has nothing at all to do with fear mongering.

Never.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > About the Weirdest Legal Case I've Heard of in a Long While:

"Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect that broke away from the Mormon church, is charged with two counts of rape by accomplice in the girl's marriage to her 19-year-old cousin. Authorities allege he used his influence to coerce her into a religious union in 2001, and that the teens' consummation of the marriage amounted to statutory rape.

The girl has testified that Jeffs told her she risked her salvation if she refused.

This case--a rare set of circumstances to be sure--raises various questions about individual agency, responsibility, the intersection of religion and law, and more (among other things, I'm curious as to where the girls' parents were in all this)."