VANCOUVER –
A Canadian court has two sekteleiders who had dissented from the Mormon church, convicted of polygamy. The authorities have tried Winston Blackmore and James Oler for years condemned, but that was difficult because their actions under freedom of religion fell. In 2011, the supreme court, however, that the laws that polygamy is forbid, were more important than religious freedom.
The 61-year-old Blackmore was between 1990 and 2014 with 24 women married and would 146 have children. The 53-year-old Oler between 1993 and 2009 with five women in a marital relationship have had. It is unclear how many children he has.
The sect had seceded from the Mormon church. Blackmore and Oler called themselves for a long time bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but after that church polygamy was renounced turned to Blackmore and his followers, the church, the back, and they started a settlement in the village of Bountiful.