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Radio West is a public radio program that is aired on public radio in SLC (produced by KUER). Tonight is a rebroadcast of the episode that is discussing the documentary film "Sons Of Perdition", with the film makers. The doc is about the 'lost boys' of Colorado City (FLDS).

Here's the link to the program.

The film will be screening locally at The Broadway theatre, starting 2/18

That title threw me off a bit. Thought the Sons of Perdition would be those who cast their sons off so the FLDS fathers could have first crack at the daughters.

It addresses the threat these boys are under from their "prophet". "Destruction" is what they've been taught. Central to their leaving Colorado City is that they can't get what they've been taught their whole life out of their heads. The real mind bending evil thing that tells them they are *nothing* in the site of God, because they left! Warren Jeffs is one creepy evil dude.

by the way: the film makers are ex-Mormon (LDS).

As Colorado City is now, Salt Lake City once was.

Fundamentalist Mormons in Colorado City are no different from pre-Manifesto Mormons in Utah.

madeleine wrote:It addresses the threat these boys are under from their "prophet". "Destruction" is what they've been taught. Central to their leaving Colorado City is that they can't get what they've been taught their whole life out of their heads. The real mind bending evil thing that tells them they are *nothing* in the site of God, because they left! Warren Jeffs is one creepy evil dude.

by the way: the film makers are ex-Mormon (LDS).

I went to high school with Measom. (That puts me one step closer to Kevin Bacon than most of you.)

I saw the Sons of Perdition premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. I highly recommend it. I saw it with a friend who is nevermo and I had to explain to him that the FLDS aren't Mormons, they're "Mormons on crack".

See the film trailer her:
http://sonsofperditionthemovie.com/Sons ... ailer.html