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While the FLDS Church is not connected in any way to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, some Mormon faithful have said they feel they are being found guilty by association.

Lies like that don't help the Mormons.

1 posted on 04/21/2008 7:29:14 AM PDT by JRochelle
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2 posted on 04/21/2008 7:30:26 AM PDT by JRochelle (Keep sweet means shut up and take it.)
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To: JRochelle

What lies?


3 posted on 04/21/2008 7:31:33 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: JRochelle
The LDS Church has said there is no such thing as a "fundamentalist Mormon," although an estimated 37,000 people who practice it consider themselves as such.

You can see how they are rushing and trying to put a stop to the child abuse in Utah. NOT

4 posted on 04/21/2008 7:32:51 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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From the article: Clinton Hudson, a student at Sonora High School, is a member of a Christian student fellowship. During a lunchtime meeting, he said one student said they should pray for the children taken in the raid. Another student said they should "pray for the Mormons." "I approached her and said, 'They're not Mormons. They're fundamentalists..."

Wait a minute. Mainstream FReeper Mormons tell us all the time they are "Christians" and question anybody who has the right to define "Christian." How is it that mainstream Mormsn are able to be the sole arbiters of defining what a "Mormon" is?

From the article: In repeated statements, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have differentiated between the two faiths...

Wow! Now LDS Church has pushed the fLDS a whole "faith" apart!!! I mean I think of historic Christianity to be the same "faith" even though denominations are distinct affiliations!

6 posted on 04/21/2008 7:36:13 AM PDT by Colofornian
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"There are some people here that believe anything bad about Mormons and that's what they're going to do," said Charles L. Webb, who serves as president of the Abilene, Texas, stake."

There are millions of mormons who believe EVERYTHING bad about non-mormon faiths, and proselytize by preaching that only mormons have the "true gospel" and that's what they're going to do.

Sounds like schadenfreude to me.

12 posted on 04/21/2008 7:48:08 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Are there any WOMEN FReepers who agree that the 1st. Amendment OKs sexual slavery?)
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Nazi-like judge to separate babies from moms! Conducting DNA tests, giving babies away like cattle!

(associated press) Adult mothers who have been allowed to stay with their young children since they were taken from a polygamous sect will be ......


16 posted on 04/21/2008 7:54:50 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: JRochelle

For people who have no connection and disapprove of their practices, there are sure a lot of mormons defending this cult.


38 posted on 04/21/2008 8:10:48 AM PDT by Politicalmom (The children were taken because they were either being raised to be raped, or raised to be a rapist.)
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Of course historically there is a connection, but there is no current connection organizationally. But do you think some hot and bothered rager is going to listen to that? Unfortunately these Mormon missionary kids are only 21 years old and probably not used to that. I try to treat them with respect but am not interested in dialogue or debate-—but I do give them credit for their effort and know they’re decent people.


41 posted on 04/21/2008 8:15:07 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (Proud to be an Infidel)
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I’ve read articles on the internet that this campaign against the FLDS cult has been played up by the Huckabee supporters. Is that true? They also claim that it is connected to the petition to demand that Mitt Romney be excluded from consideration for VP. Is that true, are they the same people?

The other question that is being raised on the web is who is funding the movement? Is is the same lobby group that changed their name to, Trust Huckabee?


72 posted on 04/21/2008 9:04:20 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE - the new euphemism for Marxist revolution)
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“San Angelo 2nd Ward Bishop Jeffrey Bushman was contacted by a chaplain helping the FLDS women when they were being housed at Fort Concho. The women had requested copies of the Book of Mormon.

He sent them some copies.”


199 posted on 04/22/2008 11:29:26 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Shortly after the raid began on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch, a group of Mormon missionaries sat down to eat at a restaurant here. A man shouted out "compound!"

"There was this guy. He held up a knife and yelled at us," said Elder Tyler Duffy from Orem.

Oh really?

256 posted on 04/23/2008 7:38:04 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Some of the fallout from the raid on the YFZ Ranch is being felt by members and missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the FLDS Church is not connected in any way to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, some Mormon faithful have said they feel they are being found guilty by association.

Ummmm, too many Mormons "look the other way" at the sick "marriage" (rape) of young girls to dirty old perverts.

Calling pedophilia a religion doesn't make it so.

If Mormons want their good name back, they better start turning in child rapists faster than the law can arrest them...

273 posted on 04/23/2008 10:50:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Dew knot tryst yore spill chequer too ketch awl yore miss takes... Freeper backhoe)
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... the FLDS Church is not connected in any way to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

That was exactly the line that stuck out to me. They share the same Scriptures, no? And revere Joseph Smith, right? And "normal" Mormons used to adhere to poligamy, right?

284 posted on 04/23/2008 12:04:15 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: JRochelle

[In repeated statements, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have differentiated between the two faiths and expressed disappointment that some news media outlets have lumped the two together.]

Both trace their doctrinal roots directly to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, both unrepentant polygamists. But other than that, they are as distinct as the Presbyterians and Methodists.


311 posted on 04/23/2008 9:49:31 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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