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.”
What do you mean “WE”; Paleface?
Cool....
Well; in the LDS Organizational wrintings, we find EMMA SMITH defying GOD by not going along wih her husbands shenanigans, and SHE was threatened with being ZOTTED, be SHE, somehow, managed to avoid being DESTROYED and stayed behind in Missouri and founded the RLDS organization.
Will THAT be a good example??
Mornin’ Nana.
I wish you could come garden for me in this high elevation desert of Utah. I’ve given up
sow those seeds, Nana! :)
lol!
Oh dear. It’s only 9am and I just broke one of the commandments: COVET! :)
These sick twisted Polygamist Cults all think they believe the Bible. They all believe the Book of Mormon. They all believe the Pearl of Great Price. They all believe in the Doctrine and Covenants. Unlike you, they all REALLY and TRULY believe all the revelations of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and they accept the everlasting covenant that is expressed in that DAMNABLE DOCTRINE OF DEMONS known as Doctrine and Covenants section 132. You believe in that damnable revelation too, but you don't have the courage of your convictions to practice it.
IT IS ALL A LIE, resty. If you can read Doctrine and Covenants section 132a and not get creeped out and not get sick to your stomach, then you have not received the love of the truth and you instead have chosen to believe a lie, and you are under the delusion warned about in 2 Thess 2:10.
Joseph Smith was a false prophet. He is still leading people into damnable heresy from his current position in Hell. Don't believe him. Open your eyes and open your heart to the truth. Run from Joseph Smith and run into the open arms of Jesus. The path you are on leads to destruction. Turn around resty, Run!
Ah... I'll bet YOU can do it, with just a little help!
Your computer sound plays thru your computer speakers, and there is a jack on your computer where this audio comes out:
The OUTPUT one will say LINEOUT, or SPEAKER, or HEADPHONE, or GREEN colored
(A notebook computer there may be only one or two jacks, usually located on the side or rear of the computer. The sound output jack is usually identified by a drawing of headphones or a speaker. )
Using a standard computer audio connection cable, (You can get this most anywhere - Wal-Mart will have them in the video/music/tv/computer area.)
insert the mini-plug into the audio output jack. (or the GREEN one if you have a desk computer)
Your husband's music system should have audio inputs similar to what is seen here.
insert the red/white jacks into the same colors on his stereo, and you now have success!
Note what LABEL is associated with those jacks so you select the correct INPUT when trying to hear your station.
Good luck!
When your power goes out and all your electronics flash when it comes back on, get a friendly teenager to reset everything ;^)
He (she?) could probably wire up your sound for you as well!
Oh foolish Restornu!!!
Why are you accusing ME of falsehoods?
Doesn't BY answer his e-mail??
"The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessings offered unto them, and they refused to accept them."
-- The Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol 11, p. 269
They CAN'T!!
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 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.
Or even HERE:
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.
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 13251–57, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
How can HALF a chart work?
More FR gremlins??
Life just comes up and SLAPS us at times! ;^)
doesn't the creek behind the house always have water in it?
- 61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood-if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
- 62 And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
Wow! There it is in black and white direct from Joseph Smith's pen. I've never seen it before. That means Jeffs and the FLDS are the true Mormons, doesn't it?
Creepy huh?
"That's not adultery," he'd say, "That's ___(fill in the blank)___
(A rejection of God's revelation by God's prophet, Joseph Smith.)
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