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 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.
“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.
“They’re in the process of looking,” she said. “They’re literally about halfway through.”
I think we need to start asking! I don’t want my cheese coming from ElDorado, TX thank you very much :)
I think it’s time to get a cow:”).
So, you believe that God has a covenant with the Muslims?
Do you accept Ishael as Abraham's legitimate heir?
But you want your beer to come from Shiner, Texas.
The mods have stated over and over that critizing a FAITH is within the rules. Personal attacks are NOT!\
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Oh so that makes it alright because the mods sanction it!
The Spirit of the Lord never seem to enter the picture when you do those things towards your neighbor
...and it is alright to make it next to impossible for the LDS to love you in spite of your callous indiferents!
How many times have the LDS pleded the Lords commandment to Love One Another?
so we are different but the Lord has always told us
John 13:
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye alove one another; as I have loved you, that ye also blove one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have alove one to another.
Does that not mean anything to any of you?
The things a few of you here from all the other Christians on FR are engaged in really does not adhere to what Lord would like all of us to do.
Many other Christian Freeper do not agree with the LDS, but they make an effort to keep the Lord commandment having faith the Lord will sort this out.
And who is more qualified to sort this out than Jesus Christ?
Just like most marriages today are until death do we part so that could be called a bondman marriage!
It is not that they were living in sin it just that under those conditions Hagar could not receive an increase after life.
More mormon "celestial" eternal marriage BS. That what the FLDS believe, too. Their temple ordinances are probably the same as the LDS.
: 4/10/2008 7:05:00 AM +9 Most of these people are brainwashed from birth to believe in these corrupt principles. I don't see much difference between the FLDS religion and the beginnings of the Mormon church. Why do you think the non-mormons (living around Joseph Smith and his wives) got so upset with his polygamist cult? Why do think the Mormons had to move to Utah to escape the wrath of the people. Jeffs group did the same kinds of things to his people that Joseph and Brigham did to theirs. Many underage brides were wed to Joseph and Brigham. The FLDS moved their Zion to some isolated place where they thought they could practice their screwy religion without getting caught very much the same as the Mormons moving to Utah. The LDS doctrine in the beginning wasn't much different from the FLDS doctrine. No one in this valley wants to admit it but the LDS church has some resposiblity in this whole thing instead of acting like these people are different than they are. They both come from the same roots. They both brainwash their children from birth and teach many of the same principles and if the LDS church wasn't threatened to be closed down by the U.S. government they would still be practicing polygamy to this day. They still believe that their men ordained in the priesthood will have mutiple wives in heaven. The LDS people pointing fingers at Jeffs need to point those fingers right back at themselves for helping to create this mess. JMHO
In spite of our heated moments I too have always have a soft spot for you too CC.
Are not the children or the Lord to look for things that pull us togahter and not apart?
I was reading in my Bible that there is no marrying in Heaven.
Newly Married Girls in Polygamist Sect Forced to Have Sex in Temple Bed, Court Documents Say
This very disturbing link given here:
Now THAT we did bring in cases back to Ohio! yum.
Jesus already “sorted it out” in the New Testament, resty.
It is finished.
They would say that it was God's will for the early Mormon Church to practice polygamy.
So they think it is wrong but they still defend it.
CC, if I am wrong, please correct me!
I can't because I don't know if they're coming or going.
Elsie has posted some passages from the Mormon's Scripture that clearly state that polygamy is prohibited and wrong. The LDS leadership says it's wrong. I don't know how they can justify it. It's more than I can wrap my mind around.
Come on..!!
You know that ol' B. Y. wasn't speaking as a "prophet" then....
/sarc
Is there a marriage bed in the the LDS temples? Why are some of there ceremonies secret? Just WHAT are they hiding? hmmmm
there=their
can’t spell for chit in my old age.
Remember, the mormons only believe in the BIBLE "as it is correctly translated." This is one of the perks only "speshul" people get.
Mormon creed:
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The Articles of Faith
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