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The lost boys of Colorado City
Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.
By Kimberly Sevcik [2006-07-06]

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you...

    ...for this wonderful article. This is Salon journalism at its near-best.

    Someone previously mentioned the Bountiful, BC colony of FLDS. They have their own sad collection of Lost Boys, proving what the gay letter-writer pointed out - this is a side effect of this type of systemic polygamy which puts it in an entirely different zip code from gay marriage.

    An interview with some of Bountiful's "Lost Boys" is here:

    http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/05/26/Bountiful/

    and there's much more about the Bountiful cult on the website for CBC's "The Fifth Estate" (a kind of Canadian "60 Minutes") here:

    http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/bustupinbountiful/

    Whoever said, "please let's see more of this and fewer boring lifestyle pieces" was right on! Kudos, Salon.

    ronron

    -- ronron
    Thursday, July 6, 2006 04:15 PM
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