Editing Placement marriage (section)

=== Free agency ===
The idea of [[Agency (LDS Church)|free agency]] is a fundamental principle of the original LDS church, and is also considered an important part of Mormon Fundamentalist doctrine. But Martha Sontag Bradley, author of ''Women of Fundamentalism'', points out, “Women in Short Creek had few choices to make as adults. Here the culture of fundamentalism collaborated with the limited opportunities offered in this isolated, rural frontier community.”

A few days after the 1953 [[Short Creek raid]], Louis J. Barlow addressed placement marriages: "There have been no forced marriages. Everyone is free to leave or stay as he chooses".<ref name="Quinn"/>

Their choices are limited because they become so dependent on their leaders. The [[United Effort Plan]], along with their isolation contributes to their inability to leave their church, and therefore, they are unable to make decisions except those that are commanded of them by their leaders such as placement marriage.<ref>Bradley, Martha. “The Women of Fundamentalism:  Short Creek, 1953.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 23 (1990):15-38</ref>