PHOENIX – A former member of a polygamous religious sect that's the focus of a discrimination trial in Arizona has testified about the extreme messages by the group's leader that turned him away from the church.
Isaac Wyler said Thursday that he was forced out of the church in 2004, but he actually started to turn against it after he heard leader Warren Jeffs call for the executions of the then-attorneys general for Arizona and Utah.
Wyler is the second former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to testify at the trial on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department.
Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, are accused of functioning as an arm of the church and discriminating against nonbelievers.
The communities deny the allegations.
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