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.”
BTW: >>it was the LXX that helped the early church move so quickly into the Greek world and it is cited in the NT far more than Enoch.<< Why have you dumped the extra books that are in the LXX? with the LXX you should have these
>Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch …Some later LXX editions also add 1 Esdras, Odes, 3&4 Maccabees, etc http://catholic-resources.org/Courses/HB-LXX-OT.ppt.<
Is this practice still going on?
So that is your around this you think the sister have to take a back seat because her husband is not interested in doing the right thing!
How selfish!
I can understand your disagreeing but that snarky sarcasm does not come from someone who walks with the Lord.
So many are playing devils advocate while at the same time saying it in the name of God?
this so incongruous!
Just which LDS are defending these child rapists?
I include the mod because I feel he might think the same and I don't want any miss understanding here!
At no time did any LDS have sex with someone who was underage!
Being sealed to someone is not having intercourse on earth, do you all understand that?
What happen in Eldorado rogue organization was Evil and I recent anyone here including mods thinking that was a legacy of the LDS.
You can all try to paint with that brush but Heavenly Father knows the truth and the hearts and minds of those who like to insinuate these things!
I want you to continue telling everyone about the LDS religion, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, the "restored" gospel, and the "beauty" of polygamy.
People read these threads - and the education you have provided is invaluable in order for people to learn what you all really are about.
Nope. Loss of credibility for your mental gymnastics to justify what you have attempted to justify.
In this world, we have people who believe they are 100% correct no matter what the facts are. Just ask Hillary, Obama, or Code Pink.
See the Do not post to me thread. and don't talk about me or my church, wanna defame Mormons, I'll be there, setting the record straight.
Fine with me pal. I will speak the truth about the cult you defend with equal vigor.
Hanging head in shame right now.
As far as the family friendly sham - yes sir, excusing child and wife abuse is most definitely a sham.
And please don't talk to me about unrepented sin, you are deep in unrepented sin as long as you continue to regurgitate every satanically inspired lie out of the pits of hell spoken by the LDS and its false peepstone wife stealing couldn't keep it in his pants prophet.
Which boards?
That's just your opinion!
Neither of those 2 references showed this.
Uh, you have in post after post, may want to buy a new mirror.
At no time did any LDS have sex with someone who was underage!
Oh, now that's just laughable! Might want to look at your peepstone wife stealing couldn't keep it in his pants prophet again. Helen Mar Kimball is one. Todd Compton wrote: "Having married Joseph Smith at the age of fourteen, Helen Mar is the youngest of Smith’s known wives." (In Sacred Loneliness, page 487) You have been shown this again and again on these boards. You are either deliberately lying, illiterate, delusional, or just plain brainwashed.
Being sealed to someone is not having intercourse on earth...
LOL! This is classic lying apologetic response that ignores FACT:
"However, several of his wives and friends made statements that clearly show at least some of the marriages included sexual relations. Todd Compton explained:
For instance, Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner stated that she knew of children born to Smith's plural wives: "I know he had six wives and I have known some of them from childhood up. I know he had three children. They told me. I think two are living today but they are not known as his children as they go by other names." Melissa Lott Willes testified that she had been Smith's wife "in very deed." Emily Partridge Young said she "roomed" with Joseph the night following her marriage to him, and said that she had "carnal intercourse" with him.
Other early witnesses also affirmed this. Benjamin Johnson wrote: "On the 15th of May . . . the Prophet again Came and at my hosue [house] occupied the Same Room & Bed with my Sister that the month previous he had occupied with the Daughter of the Later Bishop Partridge as his wife." According to Joseph Bates Noble, Smith told him he had spent a night with Louisa Beaman" (In Sacred Loneliness, pp. 12-13).
On CNN last night they said the phone calls from the 16 yr. old may have come from Colorado City AND TX. Some girl keeps calling a FLDS help line and they believe it’s the same one.
Some are saying the girl is in custody in San Angelo and some think she was whisked away by the FLDS.
It’s getting confusing!
People read these threads - and the education you have provided is invaluable in order for people to learn what you all really are about.
AMEN!!!!!!!!! The truth is getting out there and people are sickened by what they are seeing...........
Oh foolish Gentiles!
Who has bewitched you?
This kind of math is covered in our Atrticles of Faith, numbers 6&7, if you only understood them!
--MormonDude(Let me help:)
The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.
|
THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535—541
Joseph Smith |
So much for HONORING your Father & Mother!!
Did he BOTHER to tell her just what was UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANISM?
Perhaps YOU could enlighten us.
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