The Providence Journal
August 20, 2011
Editorial: A sect leader’s crimes
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeff’s conviction this month on sexual-assault charges was an important, if extreme, reminder that claims of religious freedom may not be used to flout the nation’s laws.
In: 2011, Editorials
In: 2000-2009, Editorials, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse, Former Member's Testimonies, Victim's Testimonies
Texarkana Gazette
November 29, 2009
By: Les Minor
Alamo dispatches are poor window dressing
It would be reasonable to assume with the conviction of Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison that the activities of his supporters would quickly cease. After all he was larger than life to his followers, and beyond challenge. Without his active participation, what would hold his band together? Wouldn’t they scatter to the four winds?
In: 2000-2009, Editorials
Beliefnet
November 21, 2009
Ben Worthington
Remember the Alamo — Tony Alamo
The story of Tony Alamo is bound, someday, to be made into a movie. It’s so bizarre, so improbable, so full of incident and crime and sin that it makes some soap operas look clean! The horrifyingly saddest part of this story is that Alamo was viewed and viewed himself as a conservative Christian minister. In the eyes of the world, it gives all such persons a bad name. And on top of everything else it plays on and plays right into the ultra right wing paranoia in America about a “NEW WORLD ORDER’ secretly masterminded by the Pope, as an attempt to turn America into a Fascist state. One can only imagine Alamo’s reaction to the revelation last week that Catholic bishops aided in getting the health care legislation changed so that abortions wouldn’t be funded with federal money. Dan Brown couldn’t have thought up a conspiracy story this good, or a nefarious character as amazing as Tony Alamo.
Tony Alamo makes ‘Malakh’ in The Lost Symbol look like a regular guy.
In: 2000-2009, Editorials
THE ARKANSAS LEADER
November 18, 2009
By GARRICK FELDMAN
Leader executive editor
TOP STORY: Vicious killer, child rapist face revenge
The young thug who killed a popular TV personality, and the old evangelist who assaulted girls as young as 8 and 10 were both sentenced last week and will stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.
In: 2000-2009, Editorials
Examiner.com
November 16, 2009
Margot Fernandez
Tony Alamo: the same old story–abusive do-it-yourself preacher
Fox News reports today that former preacher Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for the sexual abuse of children. In this case he preyed on the daughters of the people who followed him, taking child brides as young as 8 years of age.
Examiner.com
November 16, 2009
Margot Fernandez
Victim to Tony Alamo: what kind of a man of God does what you have done?
Tony Alamo, the disgraced preacher, has been sentenced to 175 years in prison as a result of his abuse of young girls, crucifying Jesus again in their flesh by sexual degradation and humiliation. He shamed them in private, violating their bodies, and in public, where they were paraded before the congregation as his “brides.”
In: 2000-2009, Breaking News, Editorials, News Blogs & Forums
Texarkana Gazette
November 15, 2009
Editorial
Just Desserts;
Wheels of justice grind slowly, but they eventually caught up with Tony Alamo
Justice sometimes takes time. And often, we are convinced, it is not done in chronological time, one of our human measuring sticks.
In: 2000-2009, Breaking News, Editorials
In: 2000-2009, Breaking News, Editorials
Texarkana Gazette
July 26, 2009
By: Elthel Channon
We haven’t heard the last of Alamo
It is ever so tempting to believe we have heard the last of Tony Alamo—or nearly the last.
In: 2000-2009, Editorials
