![]() ![]() ![]() Supreme Court in Cranbrook on Wednesday, arguing that a provincial attorney general in the early 1990s issued a statement that said charging an individual with polygamy would breach their charter rights. Winston Blackmore’s attorney, Blaire Suffredine, was in B.C. Just prior to the pandemic lockdown, she also travels to India.The lawyer for a British Columbia man found guilty of marrying two dozen women says his client believed he could not be prosecuted for polygamy. These entries document personal growth as she travels to Mexico and Turkey, follows a boy she meets at the Shambhala Music Festival to New York City, New Zealand and attends the Burning Man festival. WANDERING BUT NOT LOST 2011 – 2018 includes Arrested Again, Families not Felons and I am Not a Mormon. She completes her high school education and teaching degree, suffers a miscarriage and divorces her husband. These passages detail her feelings about her church-assigned marriage at sixteen, moving to Alberta and giving birth to her first child, being whisked away to live with her husband’s family in Colorado City, Arizona, and moving back home after realizing she can’t raise children in Warren Jeffs’ oppressive church. MARRIAGE 2000 – 2011 includes God Gives Life (And Takes it Away), A Round Belly and Troubled Heart, Dad’s Arrest, Feminist Fire and I’m Broken. These chronicle her idyllic childhood, as well as strict grooming customs, hints of abuse, and worry about the apocalypse. There are three sections:ĬHILDHOOD 1989 – 2000 includes passages: Baptism, Keep Sweet, Ten Weddings, Perverts, Awaiting Placement Marriage and The End is Near. With 65 diary entries, spanning life from age six in 1989 to thirty-seven in 2020, the narrative is tied together with a prologue written in April 2020 and an epilogue competed in July 2020. We learn more about Warren Jeffs’ oppressive hold on his followers, both in Canada and the U.S the Texas raids on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April 3, 2008, where 400 children were taken into state custody and the arrest of Warren Jeffs on Augand his sentencing on Augto life in prison on two counts of sexual assault of a child.īalancing Bountiful is written in the first person, through differing viewpoints in accordance with the narrator’s age as events unravel. After her father’s official leadership status was revoked, half of Bountiful chose to remain loyal to her father while the other half followed Warren Jeffs in Utah. The background of Mary Jayne’s narrative is shrouded by events that threatened her community’s survival over the last twenty years as her Mormon enclave was instructed to prepare for the prophesied, millennial apocalypse or ‘Great Destruction’. Her influence on her daughter is clear in the text: encouraging education, providing a strong, compassionate role model and support. Clearly, the mother-daughter bond, forged under what most people would assume were complex and difficult circumstances, has triumphed over a constrained father-daughter relationship. ![]() Jane Blackmore is the only wife who testified against him. It is far less known that Jane Blackmore, a registered nurse and midwife, left Bountiful with her youngest daughter in 2003, moved to nearby Cranbrook, and divorced her husband. It’s well-known in the news that Winston Blackmore was sentenced on Jto serve six months house arrest for his bountiful unions. Underlying Mary Jayne’s personal journey are the stories of her father and mother. “What is the right kind of woman, the right kind of family and the right kind of feminism?” Empowering my own feminist voice and adding to the collective voice for women has compelled me to keep asking the big questions of womanhood and humanity: “I wrote this book for the ones who don’t remember the story… for those dearest loves in my life, especially the beautiful, powerful young women who come through this proud legacy of mothers and grandmothers…. It’s my story and I speak only for myself, but my motivation in writing it has never been about me. Claiming this narrative has been an essential part of my healing and growth and stepping into my own story as a woman on the planet. In the prologue, Mary Jayne explains, “Writing this book has never felt optional. She sets out to explain how the guidance of her polygamous grandmothers, as well as her education and travel, have influenced her understanding of faith, community, family and - wait for it - feminism. “I grew up in the glory days of Bountiful,” she proudly states. ![]()
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