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Posted on 02/22/2008 9:11:12 AM PST by Zakeet
They're called the "Lost Boys," the teenagers kicked out of their homes and communities by leaders of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to ensure there's an ample supply of single, young women who will one day become plural wives. Representative Lorie Fowlke (R-Orem), is running a bill to make this abandonment a felony.
"Estimates are that we've had more than 1,000 children - primarily in southern Utah - thrown out of their homes," Fowlke says. "What we were trying to do with this bill is criminalize this behavior and send a message to this community that they can't just throw away their children."
H.B. 23 adds child abandonment to the definition of child abuse, and makes it a felony crime. It also adds an enhancement if a parent or organization benefits from the child's abandonment to further an illegal enterprise, such as polygamy. This is the case with the FLDS church, says Roger Hoole, a lawyer who represents some of the displaced young men and sits on the board for the Utah Association for Justice. He says the church benefits from kicking out young men who would compete for plural wives. This, he says, has devastating consequences.
"There's a huge impact that's coming, like a tsunami, that's going to hit the state of Utah, when these boys get a little older and realize what has happened to them and get angry," Hoole says. "There's a real problem here."
Fowlke's bill gained unanimous support in a Senate committee this morning, and now heads to the full Senate for consideration.
If posting facts makes one a pig, I am honored to be a part of the sty.
btw, it’s quite sad that most Mormon’s aren’t educated on their own history. When we SHOW them, they can’t deny those pesky facts so they resort to insults.
Yet, here they are on a Conservative Forum where we PRIDE ourselves on factual reporting and the TRUTH. Makes no sense to me.
Those sneaky little missionaries! LOL!
No wonder they are so eager to go out into the world and spread the word!!
You took the words out of my mouth!:)
Only you got the wrong one it is the X poster...LOL
Okay, restornu...You caught me!
You are right...I love posting primary source documentation.
Isn't history a wonderful thing!
But can we learn from it?
Given the fact that it so often undermines your LDS organization...I understand the draw to be a hater of it...but don't be a hater (be a lover of the truth).
Yes it is.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Mormons do seem to be obsessed with looks...
Ya if it is factual!
When posters make it personal, and this was clearly a personal attack --- I have several choices based on the history of the poster and the severity of the offense. Sometimes a warning will do, sometimes the post is pulled. Sometimes both.
This one was both.
In addition to pulling and warning, I also have been known to "cookie", mute, suspend and ban.
I do not care who started it. I do not care if a poster feels "justified" to attack another poster.
Two 'wrongs' do not make a 'right.'
And as I have said before, when one poster is warned - all posters involved should consider themselves warned.
Never ignore a moderator's warning.
So when will the lds church publish an interlinear English-Reformed Hieroglyphic bom? However Egyptologists still haven't found these 'reformed' characters.
Its suppose to be a salamander - NOT a gecko, silly mormondude.
LOL! That’s cute.
Thank you.
It’s easy enough to do...
;^)
Its suppose to be a salamander - NOT a gecko, silly mormondude.
White and delightsome!
"That's one good looking mummy!"
“That was almost two years ago and she still is stuck in your mind!:)”
A picture is worth a thousand words and that one says it all, but please do not post any pictures of how he used to use teenage girls, especially the poor 14 year old.
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