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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Authorities enter Eldorado-area temple (Fundamentalist LDS cult)
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| 5 April 08
| Paul A. Anthony
Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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 sheriffs 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 states 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 sheriffs 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 didnt 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, Dont look here, she said, it makes you concerned thats 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 sheriffs deputies and game wardens from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Although CPS and Department of Public Safety officials have described the compounds residents as cooperative, Palmer disagreed.
Things have been a little tense, a little volatile, she said.
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.
Theyre in the process of looking, she said. Theyre literally about halfway through.
TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cult; flds; jeffs; lds; lyingfreepers; mormon; mormonism; pitcairnisland; pologamy; polygamy; romney; soapoperaresty; warrenjeffs
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To: metmom
But dont confuse them with the facts.But that is their only hope!
It will be hard to say that what I posted is "my opinion".
1,901
posted on
04/10/2008 4:09:56 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
Brigham Young gave a sermon about it and pleaded with his After Christ's return - not before.
1,902
posted on
04/10/2008 4:10:46 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
[THAT was messed up!]
A time will come when all people will learn to live togather.
After Christ's return - not before.
1,903
posted on
04/10/2008 4:11:20 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
Romans 8:31-32
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
TRUTH IGNORED
Smith, Young, Taylor, Pratt, Snow, Kimbal,l Woodruff ...
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
BEHOLD!!!! The Restorative Power of the Book of Mormon!!
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 2
24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
1,904
posted on
04/10/2008 4:13:02 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Enosh
Resty, where do you get this stuff? Why.... from Headquarters in SLC; of course!
--MormonDude(Speechless)
1,905
posted on
04/10/2008 4:15:31 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
none of the mainstram cared so far about what the scriptures really say! Give it up, Girl!
It's been SHOWN that YOUR Organization's founder and leaders did NOT follow what Scripture said about leaders of the church having only one wife.
Quit repeating the manta that YOUR organization has washed your brain with.
1,906
posted on
04/10/2008 4:18:33 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
When did OMM gvie you permission to share his freepmail? SEE!!!
1,907
posted on
04/10/2008 4:19:14 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Old Mountain man
You obviously are an untrustworthy scumbag. There will never be any further private conversations between us. SEE!!
1,908
posted on
04/10/2008 4:19:50 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: MinuteGal
Sky Pilot, you've been around FR long enough to know that an honorable freeper does not reveal private freepmails by posting them on a thread unless permission is granted. I was thinking about sending YOU a PRIVATE reply, calling you all sorts of names and questioning YOUR motives, knowing that you are 'honorable' and would just take it on the chin.
YOU'VE been around FR long enough to know that one of the last things an LDS apologist will try is the old - "a REAL Christian would not act the way you do" tactic.
You've ALSO been around FR long enough to know that OMM is merely a name caller and a provocateur, seldom adding anything of substance to the discussion.
1,909
posted on
04/10/2008 4:26:16 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
What source does the Bible have for backing up what it says The same standards should the same for judging all doctrine!
Note to self:
If ever on trial, and RESTORNU shows up in the jury pool...
1,910
posted on
04/10/2008 4:27:37 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
Could be in some cases but I haven't read that account in Jacob/Israel family tree. Even if you DID read it; you WILL believe how your 'teachers' explain it to you!
1,911
posted on
04/10/2008 4:28:42 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: SeaHawkFan
I dont care who you are; thats funny.And...
...the source of Resty's claim of HIGHER and LESSER!
1,912
posted on
04/10/2008 4:30:54 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Colofornian
Hey!I didn't READ that in there!
1,913
posted on
04/10/2008 4:31:54 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: P-Marlowe
Maybe you should read it again.No need to.
Our teachers have told us what it means.
--MormonDude(The Mishies know "MORE about God and Christ and the plan of salvation than any who would ATTACK" them.*)
http://newsnet.byu.edu/video/18773/
Time - 3:57
1,914
posted on
04/10/2008 4:35:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1,915
posted on
04/10/2008 4:38:05 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Old Mountain man
I shall, of course, hold my breath.
1,916
posted on
04/10/2008 4:42:32 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
OMM warn me about you!The BIBLE warns US about YOU!
Matthew 10:14listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
1,917
posted on
04/10/2008 4:44:25 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Colofornian
; ^ )
1,918
posted on
04/10/2008 4:45:13 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
I am confused on this one how can there be rivalry with a only child?Think about it, then ask GOD for the truth of it.
1,919
posted on
04/10/2008 4:46:23 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: restornu
Tennessee Nana I am human and still struggling and when you and a few others continue to slander my faith with your interpretation. Your 'faith' gets slandered by the very men that STARTED it; not us!
Read THEIR words - listen to THEIR voices: that is ALL we are trying to do here.
1,920
posted on
04/10/2008 4:47:48 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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