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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.
The Bible...
That IS an anti-Mormon book!
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Silly me
:)
And it’s THE anti-mormon Book
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Perhaps because it mainly happened in an anti-mormon writer’s mind? Yeah, that’s why!
Translation (and better than the funeral papyri or Kinderhook kind), Tennessee Nana: Yeah...I know that our guys were bad guys and not following Mormon doctrine...but, but, but...there are other bad guys out there that did some really bad things! Thus, Mormonism is legitimate.
If this is a defense of your faith, Omm...you are in a world of hurt!
(Hint: It would have been better for you, and for your faith, to recognize the wrong involved in this event and lament it. Your constant defense of the indefensible has got you, and Mormonism, buried in a hole you can never climb out of.)
ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps because it mainly happened in an anti-mormon writer’s mind? Yeah, that’s why!
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Yeah like the mind of God when He said
Thou shalt not commit adultery..Exodus 20:14
I don't.
The posts are pithy, informative and significantly damaging to your so called defenses and arguments.
Perhaps because it mainly happened in an anti-mormon writer’s mind? Yeah, that’s why!
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God...the # 1 anti-mormon
You showed up to post that?
Elsie can’t be a homo. I’ve seen his picture, too hairy
You need to really sharpen your skill as it relates to defending your faith.
This response, which is indicative of most of your very weak attempts and defense, are worthless and continue to make you and your faith look bad.
Like I said, earlier...I don't think that this is a hole that you can climb out of.
Please...someone take the shovel out of Omm's hand...he just can't stop digging!
You stated that before on this thread, Omm, and I asked you to provide the specific instance...You have not, yet, responded with specificity.
Please provide documentation of your claim.
I asked if you are an LDS because of the types of personal comments from Mormons (like the one in the ‘to’) which get left on the thread while other comments of a personal nature made by those opposed to the heresies in Mormonism are yanked.
Yes...that is even a better way to say it!
Thank you Tennessee, Nana.
Oh...Please tell, Omm.
Give us the specific details with documentation.
And I’m curious as to what standard you apply so that the post of this ‘to’ is not considered ‘getting pesonal’ ...
http://www.fairlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2006_Book_of_Abraham_201.html
Now really, you’re on a conservative site like the FR, & you take an article in the NYT as undisputed truth?
And this one is not considered ‘getting personal’? ... Now you see why I asked if you are perchance LDS.
And they are, in most cases, directly taken from mormon sources.
But, it's SO much more fun for some to sit back in their teflon suits and snipe with ad hominems.
The F.A.I.R. article you linked to, an astonishing piece of spin that! “It seems reasonable to conclude that Joseph may have believed that Abraham himself, with pen in hand, wrote the very words that he was translating.” AMAZING! Smith was not translating anything! He was fabricating something. The actual Egyptian writing was however later translated, and your peepstone false prophet was exposed for the fraud he always was. Amazing that so much effort is extended to whitewash such a black hearted man and the fables he produced.
And your (poor) defense of the Mormon faith just gets more silly.
restornu has already posted acceptance of the fact that Joseph Smith (37 years old) married 14 year old Helen Mar Kimball...Mormon historians have accepted this fact...Are you, now, claiming that Joseph's Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball was a concoction of an anti-mormon's mind?
What are you saying by your post?
...because it is in response to Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball.
(Notice, please...no twisting of words, here)
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