Social Issues

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5th District Court Judge James L. Shumate, second from right, asks a question of Lorin Holm, left, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, gestures over his shoulder to friends in the gallery as the jailhouse confession in which FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs admits that he is not and never was a prophet during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011 for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Seated next to her attorney, Rodney Parker, Lynda Peine, right, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks away from the monitor moments before she stepped out of the courtroom as the video recording of the jailhouse confession in which FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs admits that he is not and never was a prophet is played during a custody hearing between Peine and her ex-husband, Lorin Holm, who was excommunicated from the church, in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that Peine and her sister-wife Patricia Peine should be denied custody of their and Holm's children due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Lynda Peine, right, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, confers with her attorney, Rodney Parker, during a custody hearing between Peine and her ex-husband, Lorin Holm, who was excommunicated from the church, in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that Peine and her sister-wife Patricia Peine should be denied custody of their and Holm's children due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks on as video of a deposition of FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is played for the court during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks on as video of a deposition of FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is played for the court during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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Lynda Peine, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, sits with her fingers in her ears as testimony regarding FLDS church leader Warren Jeffs is read during a custody hearing between Peine and her ex-husband, Lorin Holm, who was excommunicated from the church, in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that Peine and her sister-wife Patricia Peine should be denied custody of their and Holm's children due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011 for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)

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5th District Court Judge James L. Shumate, center, asks a question of attorney Rodney Parker, right, who represents Lynda Peine, and attorney Roger Hoole, left who represents Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, during a custody hearing between Holm and Peine, who still belongs to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorney has argued that Peine should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011 for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over their children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)