Under the Banner of Heaven
Dear friends, As you can see from the title, I had the opportunity to binge-watched a true-crime fiction tv-show last night called, “Under the Banner of Heaven”. This series tells the story of a Mormon detective, Jebediah Pyre, and his Paiute partner, Bill Taba, who are investigating a double murder case relating to a Mormon family, the Laffertys, who have transgressed from the current Mormon prophet to the fundamentalist teachings. Which takes me back to another documentary that not a while ago must have topped the charts on Netflix, “Keep Sweet Pray and Obey”, about the infamous religious community the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In particular, the series documents how Warren Jeff, the prophet of the FLDS, have been abusing his power to build an industry of child-marriages while satisfying his own selfish needs to have underage wife among his many wives. The Mormon church have evolved to adapt to government and federal laws, and have banned plural
