Posted on 02/19/2011 10:35:00 AM PST by Colofornian
VANCOUVER — In 2005, two fathers from the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful, B.C., drove their 12-year-old daughters across the U.S. border.
They went separately and, in one case, the girl’s mother went along.
The purpose of the trips? Marriage, according to documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court Friday. The girls were “sealed for time and eternity” in religious ceremonies to Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...
The ceremonies took place in the FLDS-controlled twin towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. In one case, both the girl’s mother and father participated in the ceremony.
Both girls were subsequently driven by an FLDS official to Texas, where the church has a compound called Yearning for Zion ranch.
A year earlier, the documents say that a 13-year-old Bountiful girl was also taken by her father and mother to Colorado City where she was “celestially married” to Jeffs at a ceremony in private home. No one is certain how many wives Jeffs has, although it’s commonly estimated to be more than 80...
...as a result of the Texas investigation that last week lawyers for the B.C. government found out about the two 12-year-old girls and their parents. ...only after receiving the information that B.C. lawyers learned that other provincial officials had known some details about the 13-year-old...
...Bauman will hear arguments before deciding whether to admit the evidence...that include: ...FLDS marriage records seized in a 2008 raid on the Texas compound...
...former Bountiful resident Teressa Wall Blackmore told The Vancouver Sun...she knew of five Bountiful girls...living at the ranch — two...were married to Jeffs. Canadian consular officials...said they were aware that some Canadian teens were taken into protective custody in Texas.
But why nothing was done in 2008 is an open question.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
I still think of the Spring of 2008 when many non-Mormon and several Mormon FREEPERS posted comments which amounted to a defense of what was going on at the Yearning for Zion compound! Even now, I don't see any culpables being issued for those comments, even though we have evidence that 12 yo were being "married" off shortly before arriving there.
Also, some FREEPERS kept trying to portray the parents of those in the compound as 100% innocents...yet how could you have 12 & 13 yo "wives" living in your midst and go along with that?
From the article: No one is certain how many wives Jeffs has, although it’s commonly estimated to be more than 80.
That's what happens with these power-hungry man-made "prophets":
* Jeffs took the innocence of more than 80...many teens...some 12 yo...
* Brigham Young had 55 wives...
* Joseph Smith over a two-year period starting at age 36 started amassing about a new "wife" every month. That pace continued for two solid years. He slowed a little at age 38...and was dead that same year. Given his late 30s pace, Smith may have exceeded Jeffs.
Q Shouldn't we properly separate the fLDS from LDS since they are indeed separate entities under the control of distinct men?
A. For those who say fLDS and LDS should be treated separately, keep in mind that both are followers of Joseph Smith and his edicts and that in regard to polygamy, the fLDS are the "true pure" adherents while the B>LDS are the "poly" heretics!
Both groups sanction as a "sacred revelation" the SAME Mormon "scriptural" edicts on polygamy -- D&C 132 -- which HAS NOT been rescinded by the mainstream Mormons!
Two chapters later, D&C 134:12, talks about how Mormons should not -- and I quote directly --"to meddle with or influence them" [slaves] "in the least to cause them to be dissatisfied with their situations in this life..."
Perhaps that's why we don't see more Mormon authorities or Utah law enforcement officials acting more to address 12 yo being "married off" in places like Hildale, UT. They have a non-meddling clause directive in their "scriptures" that applies to slaves and trafficked girls alike!
Q.How did D&C 134:12 come about?
A. Go back to mid-1835. Smith is churning out new “scripture”; he is taking aim at new converts. But in that time, did he believe the Mormon “gospel” to be aimed at slaves? (No, not unless express “permission” was granted by their “owners”). This is what Smith portends to be the Mormon god's view on these slaves:
”We believe it just to preach the gospel to the nations of the earth, and warn the righteous to save themselves from the corruption of the world; but we do not believe it right to interfere with bond-servants, neither preach the gospel to, nor baptize them contrary to the will and wish of their masters, nor to meddle with or influence them in the least to cause them to be dissatisfied with their situations in this life, thereby jeopardizing the lives of men; such interference we believe to be unlawful and unjust, and dangerous to the peace of every government allowing human beings to be held in servitude.” (Joseph Smith, D&C 134:12, still in the Mormon standard works of what they regard to be "scripture" still applicable today)
So, not only do we have the fLDS who may take D&C 134:12 at heart as some "right" to sexually traffic 12 yo girls, but mainstream Mormons also sanction this verse! It has never been removed or rescinded!!!
Q. Well, isn't there a bit of slavery sanctioning in the Bible?
A. The D&C passage makes it quite clear – in contrast to the apostle Paul who vied for the religious freedom of Onesimus while treating him as a full Christian brother and encouraged Philemon to do the same-- that somehow, LDS think that "religious freedom" applies to everyone except slaves and trafficked 12 yo girls!
I mean, imagine if you will, for a moment, that you are the God of the universe; God of every planet; God of the earth; Creator of every person. Imagine for a moment you are speaking forth universal eternal truth. And then imagine that someone claims you (as God) made the above “scriptural” statement.
D&C 134:12, written in 1835 pro-slavery America, made it quite clear that instead of the Mormons having a universal god who issued eternal truth applicable to all cultures, he is instead an American-sounding god who speaks only in King James English & was beholden to the American slavery industry.
Could you imagine a verse still applicable today—one similar to the Mormon scripture of Doctrine & Covenants 134:12—which would tell you in effect that yes, the gospel was for girls who are sexually trafficked--but only if their fLDS pawn or Pimp-owner says "Yes?"
D&C 134:12 "settles" the issue for the Mormon: Are slaves & trafficking victims worthy of the "gospel?" LDS Answer? Nope! At least if their "mastuh" says "no":"neither preach the gospel to, nor baptize them..." says LDS "Scripture.
Jeffs and his kind are just following the “prophet” and are the true church. The “regular” LDS are apostates.
Modern day slavery and sex trafficking. You'd think with all the millions of dollars the Mormon church has, they'd use it to try and get rid of this menace. But, they sit silent.
we have evidence that 12 yo were being “married” off shortly before arriving there.
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Their own parents were pimps for the mormon high priest, Warren Jeffs..
And some people actually wonder why the LDS is considered by non-mormons to be a sick dangerous religion...
Leaky borders...
Where have I heard THAT concept before...
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