LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY theonides)

NY Times article here.

Apparently Warren Jeffs was arrested after a routine traffic stop. The officer recognized him from the 10 Most Wanted list even though he, at first, gave an alias.

Some quotes from the article:

“Part of his mystique was that God was protecting him and he couldn’t be taken,” said Mark Shurtleff, the Utah attorney general, who has led the crackdown there.

“Many contemporary Mormons complain that everybody associates them with polygamy, and in fact they’re the most antipolygamy people you could meet,” said Sarah Barringer Gordon, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School who teaches religious history and the law of church and state.

Steve Martinez, special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Las Vegas field office, said a search of the vehicle uncovered laptop computers, cellphones, the wigs and $50,000.

The main difference I can see between Warren Jeffs and Domionist groups is that Jeffs was willing to accept total control of a small group of people and withdraw from the larger US society, while Dominionists want the same level of control, ultimately, they just want it over everyone.