B.C. court hears religious doctrine emphasized obedience to men in child-bride case

CRANBROOK, B.C. — A British Columbia court heard evidence from three former members of a polygamous religious group in the trial of a man charged with removing a 15-year-old girl from Canada to marry a man in the United States.
They testified Thursday for the Crown in the case against James Marion Oler, a former leader of a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community in Bountiful, B.C.
A former member of Oler’s group, whose identity is protected by a publicat