Posted on 10/25/2005 12:03:53 AM PDT by Crackingham
One year ago, Arizona authorities set up shop in a double-wide trailer here at the edge of the nation's largest polygamous community, trying to bring at least a semblance of secular law to an American small town like no other.
Theirs was the first independent government presence in half a century at this settlement straddling the Arizona-Utah border, a place frozen in a 19th-century frontier theocracy inspired by the early Mormon Church.
But the twin towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, continue to defy the law, the authorities and dissidents say: under the direction of leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, women are still being removed from their husbands and assigned to other men, and girls under 18 are ordered to become brides of older men on a day's notice, all despite the presence of full-time outside law enforcement.
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The Arizona attorney general, Terry Goddard, whose own office is already active here, has asked the Justice Department to investigate the local police, saying they "seem to be aiding and abetting" criminal behavior by discouraging witnesses in sexual abuse cases from testifying; a third of the force has been decertified by Utah and Arizona for criminal conduct.
In a recent letter to the United States attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, Mr. Goddard wrote, "I believe that the officers of the Colorado City Police Department have engaged in a pattern of conduct that deprives individuals of their constitutional and civil rights."
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These people have been excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, so technically not part of the church. However, they get their doctrine and practices from the writings and scripture of the LDS namely the "Book of Mormon", "Doctrine and Covenants" and "Pearl of Great Price." They also will claim priesthood authority through the lineage of the Mormons.
(sitting back quietly now, waiting for the denial from the FReep Mormons......)
American women are stupid if they take up with any man who is a foreigner (That is, one who has not denounced his former nation and become a legal citizen here)
Then there is Islam Mormonism. Its followers believe that its sacred text, the Koran Book of Mormon, is the word of Allah God as dictated to his prophet Muhammad Joseph Smith. Non-MuslimsMormons might regard Muhammad Smith as a deluded and bellicose man who had far too many wives than was good for him.
If there is any ignorance, it is on your side of the table. I suggest you read further, sport.
"Now you are educated and not ignorant..." Good Lord...listen to yourself sometime. You sound like a fool's walking caricature.
Yikes. What you describe gives me a really bad vibe, too. Sounds like said girlfriend was nothing but an anchor for those folks to get a foothold...and now she's expendable. Yeesh.
Nope. Still there.
I'm not sure what freeplancer's objection is, but it certainly wasn't researched or logically approached.
Not only that, but her father in law was arrested for cocaine trafficking, and the son still does his 'emerald' business from Columbia to the US.
I suggest that you go to www.lds.org rather than the other site. It is a disguised anti LDS site. For the4 record, I am not a member of the LDS Church. The official, as opposed to the revisionist and outlawed polygamous Revised LDS Church, has outlawed polygamy for at least a century.
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