BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Authorities enter Eldorado-area temple (Fundamentalist LDS cult)

Local and state officials entered the temple of a secretive polygamist sect late Saturday, said lawmen blockading the road to the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado.

The action comes hours after local prosecutors said officials were preparing for the worst because a group of FLDS members were resisting efforts to search the structure.

The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and Schleicher County sheriff’s deputy confirmed that officials have entered the temple but said they had no word on whether anything occurred in the effort.

The incursion into the temple caps the three-day saga of the state’s Child Protective Services agency removing at least 183 women and children from the YFZ Ranch since Friday afternoon. Eighteen girls have been placed in state custody since a 16-year-old told authorities she was married to a 50-year-old man and had given birth to his child.

Saturday evening, ambulances were brought in, said Allison Palmer, who as first assistant 51st District attorney, would prosecute any felony crimes uncovered as part of the investigation inside the compound.

“In preparing for entry to the temple, law enforcement is preparing for the worst,” Palmer said Saturday evening. They want to have “medical personnel on hand in case this were to go in a way that no one wants.”

Apparently as a result of action Saturday night at the ranch, about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, a Schleicher County school bus unloaded another group of at least a dozen more women and children from the compound.

Although members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, have provided varying degrees of cooperation to the sheriff’s deputies and Texas Rangers searching the compound, all cooperation stopped once authorities tried to search the gleaming white temple that towers over the West Texas scrub, Palmer said.

“There may be those who would oppose (entry) by placing themselves between law enforcement and the place of worship,” Palmer said Saturday afternoon. “If an agreement cannot be reached … law enforcement will have to — as gently and peaceably as possible — make entry into that place.”

Sect members consider the temple, dedicated by then-leader of the sect Warren Jeffs in January 2005 and finished many months later, off-limits to those who are not FLDS members, said Palmer, who prosecutes felony cases in Schleicher County.

Palmer said she didn’t know the size or makeup of the group inside the temple.

The earlier refusal to provide access was even more disconcerting because CPS investigators have yet to identify the 16-year-old girl or her roughly 8-month-old baby among the dozens removed from the compound, Palmer said.

“Anytime someone says, ‘Don’t look here,’” she said, “it makes you concerned that’s exactly where you need to look.”

The girl told authorities in two separate phone calls a day apart that she was married to a 50-year-old man, Dale Barlow, who had fathered her child, Palmer said.

The joint raid included the Texas Rangers, CPS, Schleicher County and Tom Green County sheriff’s deputies and game wardens from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Although CPS and Department of Public Safety officials have described the compound’s residents as cooperative, Palmer disagreed.

Authorities removed 52 children Friday afternoon and 131 women and children overnight Friday. About 40 of the children are boys, said CPS spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.

No further children have been taken into state custody since Friday, when 18 girls were judged to have been abused or be at imminent risk for abuse. CPS has found foster homes for the girls, Meisner said, and will place them after concluding its investigation.

Meisner declined to comment on the fate of the 119 other children and said authorities were still searching the ranch for others Saturday evening.

“They’re in the process of looking,” she said. “They’re literally about halfway through.”

...it's interesting that they [Mormons] deny the LDS practice polygamy, and here they are on all the polygamy threads defending it. The more they defend it, the more folks are reminded of their own polygamous history. If I were still mormon, I'd stay far away from polygamy in any form. [greyfoxx39]

Well, I think one reason why is there's a "love-hate" relationship by LDS with polygamy. The "hate" part is...

...the reputation it emits;

...the reminder that their ancestors were part of an overt law-breaking sub-culture--often using intentional deception in the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s to continue its practice;

...the overt linkage it establishes with the fLDS;

...and the eternal light it shines on a part of their "Scripture" (D&C 132)-- a part's neon light which was supposed to have been turned off & rendered moot in 1890--but hasn't been.

Contemporary Mormons' "love" affair with polygamy is that they believe most or all of those 19th century & early 20th century LDS polygamists are still alive & are still practicing polygamy in the celestial kingdom...plus any contemporary LDS who were serially married to women & who were sealed to each in the temple "for eternity" would likewise, under this belief, be eternal polygamists!!! [There's just no escaping polygamy for the mainstream Mormon church!!!]

Look at how Mitt Romney was "Poster Boy" for exemplifying this "love-hate" relationship with polygamy. On the one hand, his great-grandfather (not great-great grandfather as he was quoted below), was a polygamous man who married his fifth wife 7 years after the LDS "prophet" publicly said, "No more new plural marriages." So how did Mitt respond to CBS last year on the campaign trail? (He said polygamy was "awful"):

"I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional wives as he was told to do," Romney...said..."And I must admit I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy."

The "love" part, of course, comes, in that who can fail to stop loving their family & relatives?

But the "love-hate" relationship of polygamy is inherent in the very core of the practice. Joseph Smith's 14-year-old plural wife, Helen Mar Kimball, said at first she "hated" polygamy. It was often the case that the earlier wives would resent the add-on wives. It locked the ugly reality of jealousy into the very nature of the relationship!

Take a look at Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who took his 5th wife, Millie Eyring Snow, in 1897 at the age of 54. According to an author whose ancestors were polygamists, "Millie Snow was a widow of Erastus Snow, had considerable monehy, and was resented by first four wives because of husband's attention of her." (Solemn Covenant, B. Carmon Hardy, appendix)

Imagine being the women marrying Miles Park Romney...Hannah, who is his same age, 19...but then 5 years later comes Caroline, age 21...then 6 years later comes Cathrine--she's 18, Miles is 30...then 4 years later is Annie--she's 18 or 19, Miles is 34. Then they all get established as a clan for 20 years--each of the 4 wives bearing Miles babies--only for yet a fifth (wealthy)wife to enter the scene & capture all this attention from the household patriarch.

BTW, like father, like son...one of Romney's sons was Miles Archibald Romney, who married all 3 of his plural wives after the manifesto which supposedly "halted" polygamy (1898, 1902, 1909). These were the "add-on" wives to his first wife, who Miles Archibald Romney married when she was 16 (maybe 15).

What about other prophets such as Moses, when they receive revelations from the Lord?

Don’t they too say the samething?

Evidently St. PAUL didn't say anything worthwhile.....

2 Corinthians 11:12-15
12. And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Galatians 1:6-9
6. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--
7. which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
9. As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Ephesians 2:1-2

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

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