Care of sect could top $5 million (YFZ/fLDS Daily Thread

161 posted on 04/26/2008 8:08:40 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")

I wonder if anything changes legally if YFZ isn't "church" property, but rather "private" property:

Investigator Sam Brower, who works for the law firm that represents plaintiff Brent Jeffs, said he wanted to deliver the summons directly to Warren Jeffs but adds that he really didn't expect to see the prophet. Merrill Jessop, who met the men at the ranch gate, reportedly told Brower and Sheriff Doran that he wasn't aware if Warren Jeffs had ever been to the YFZ Ranch. "He added that if Warren had actually been here it was only occasionally," Brower said.

Doran met with Brower at the Sheriff's Office where he verified the investigator's license through the State of Utah and reviewed the summons before taking him to the ranch gate. Once there the sheriff placed a call from his cellular phone to the ranch and asked that someone meet him at the gate.

It took nearly an hour, but Merrill Jessop and Paul Allred finally came to the gate to meet with Doran and Brower. At that time the men asked to see Warren Jeffs and was told he wasn't on the property. Brower then gave the summons to Jessop in his capacity as a church official.

But Jessop denied that the YFZ Ranch is associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints saying that instead the property is owned by private businessmen.

http://www.myeldorado.net/YFZ%20Pages/YFZ081904a.html

162 posted on 04/26/2008 8:11:06 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland (4-hshootingsports.org)

To: Alice in Wonderland

163 posted on 04/26/2008 8:13:09 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland (4-hshootingsports.org)

The numbers don't add up. There were over 100 mothers, right? Only 7 chose to go back? How many are dozens? How many mothers have actually been separated?

The last I heard, the number of "mothers" had declined by 50 or so from the initial reports. About 460 or so are now considered underage. Whether that's considered underage by the determinations of CPS, confession/deception by the young women or what, I do not know.

164 posted on 04/26/2008 9:13:34 PM PDT by the808bass

In his quasi-official 1966 book Mormon Doctrine, which remains in print, the late LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie wrote that "the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming and the ushering in of the millennium."

BAH!

That ain't scripture!

It's got no bonafides!!!

--MormonDude(Nothing but SCRIPTURE for me!!! [Uh... except that pesky D&C #132 thingy!] )

165 posted on 04/27/2008 4:50:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

What is also interesting about the chart is that I think everyone on it, save Joseph Smith and John Taylor, have been excommunicated from the LDS church.

Give 'em time!

166 posted on 04/27/2008 4:51:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Those are not dresses; but UNIFORMS!

167 posted on 04/27/2008 4:52:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Alice in Wonderland

BIG Willie?

Sounds like SOMEone is COMPENSATING for something!

168 posted on 04/27/2008 4:54:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Are you TRYING to get my monitor to CATCH FIRE???!!!

169 posted on 04/27/2008 4:55:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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